After learning about his demise, several political leaders from Chief Minister MK Stalin to Opposition leader Edappadi Palaniswami have paid tribute and expressed condolences to the bereaving family.
According to our sources, newly appointed Director-General of Police (DGP) of Tamil Nadu, Shankar Jiwal IPS, who is also head of the police force, has travelled to Theni to pay last respects to Vijayakumar.
The BJP supporters ran a campaign that the station master of the Bahanaga Bazar station was Mohammed Sheriff and that he had been absconding after the accident.
Following the medical negligence, Kothandapani said that he has lost confidence in the government hospitals in Chennai and has shifted his daughter to a private hospital in Vellore.
The police have registered a case and taken the accused woman under custody while the officials are on lookout for three men, who helped the woman in murdering her ex-lover.