Chennai: The accused in the murder of a woman IT employee here, arrested last week and hospitalised in Tirunelveli after attempting suicide while being nabbed, was today brought to the city and admitted to a government hospital where a magistrate remanded him in judicial custody.

24-year-old P Ramkumar was brought in an ambulance from Tirunelveli Government Medical College Hospital with a medical team and police escort and admitted to the Government Royapettah Hospital in the early hours, police said.