MADURAI
The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the 2012 murder of K.N. Ramajeyam, brother of former Transport Minister and DMK Tiruchi district secretary K.N. Nehru.
Justice A.M. Basheer Ahamed deferred his judgement, without mentioning a date on which it would be pronounced, after pointing out that the CB-CID had not been able to crack the case even after five years.
Latha Ramajeyam, wife of the deceased, had approached the High Court in December 2014 with a plea to order a CBI probe. Since then, the CB-CID had obtained a series of adjournments after repeatedly promising the court of achieving a breakthrough in the case at the earliest.
However, when the case was heard on Thursday, senior counsel R. Shanmugasundaram, representing the petitioner, told the court that it was not fair on the part of the CB-CID to seek further time without having shown any appreciable progress in the investigation.
Concurring with him, the judge said a perusal of the last two status reports filed by the CB-CID showed that most of the paragraphs from one of those reports had been reproduced in the other but for the last line in which the agency had sought further time to complete the probe.
However, a government counsel alleged that the family members of the deceased were not fully cooperating with the investigation.
Mr. Shanmugasundaram took strong exception to it and said that the petitioner’s family members had provided full cooperation to the agency.
The body of Mr. Ramajeyam, a businessman dealing with granite mining, real estate and exports, was found dead on the banks of the Cauvery near Thiruvalarsolai on the outskirts of Tiruchi on March 29, 2012. The circumstances indicated that he was done to death after being abducted during his morning walk.
