Chennai techie killed by hoarding: Book the wind, says AIADMK leader

AIADMK leader C Ponnaiyan drew a lot of criticism over his recent statement for blaming the wind in the death of Chennai techie. Twenty-three-year-old Subashree working in a software company was run over by a water tanker as she fell down on the road when an illegal life-size hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary fell on her on September 12.

Chennai: Veteran AIADMK leader C Ponnaiyan on Saturday said that the wind should be booked in connection with the death of 23-year-old woman engineer who died after a hoarding fell on her in Chennai in September.

Subashree working in a software company was run over by a water tanker as she fell down on the road when an illegal life-size hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary fell on her on September 12.

Even though the Madras High Court had banned hoardings in public places, an AIADMK party official C. Jayagopal had put up the banner at the centre of the busy Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road.

Former AIADMK councillor Jayagopal was arrested for endangering Subhashree’s life and causing death by negligence.

“Jayagopal, who had kept the banner ahead of his family marriage function, had not pulled it on Subhashree. So, it is inappropriate to file an FIR against him,” Ponnaiyan said while speaking to a Tamil channel.

“It was the wind flow which tumbled the banner. If at all a case has to be filed, it has to be filed against the wind,” the former minister said.

Ponnaiyan’s statement has drawn the ire of the opposition and people on social media platforms.

DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai said that the statement shows the insensitivity of AIADMK leaders.