CHENNAI: A day after a 23-year-old man set ablaze a woman he had been stalking at her Madipakkam apartment, the Thirumangalam police on Wednesday arrested a third year law student after her family lodged a complaint stating that he had been following her and even created a ruckus at the college where the girl is a student.
A court later sent the arrested man, 23-year-old Mithun Srinivasan, to jail. His mother Bhuvaneshwari is a Tamil film actor.
Mithun, police said, had on two earlier
occassions too harassed the girl
. In the first incident, he splashed kerosene all around the her residence and tried to burn it down, but the family members and a few residents of the area managed to chase him away. On the second occassion, he returned to the house and was seen smashing
CCTV
cameras installed there.
Police said Mithun, who lives on
Angel Street
in Valsaravakkam with his mother, had known the girl since they were students of a private school. After completing Class XII, the girl secured an
MBBS
seat in a private college in Neelankarai, while Mithun enrolled in a law course at a college in
Kattankulathur
on the city’s outskirts.
He continued to harass her even after they finished school, posting messages on social media platforms and making a nuisance of himself. “As she kept avoiding him, he went to her house in Tirumangalam two months ago and threatened to pour kerosene on her and even tried to set her house ablaze,” said inspector M Ravi.
Police said he would travel to her college frequently and try to get her to talk to him. He was always in her way and made life hell for the girl, a police officer said. Unable to bear the harassment, the girl informed her parents who approached the Tirumangalam police.
He has been booked under Sections 354-B (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe), 448 (punishment for house trespass), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 506 (i) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act (penalty for harassment of women).
Police sources said Mithun was ‘married’ to a Sri Lankan woman named Asmitha who is employed in a beauty parlour in the city. However, Asmitha’s parents had approached the Madras high court seeking to annul the marriage and retrieve their daughter, the sources said.
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