The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) on Wednesday informed the Madras High Court Bench here that it had achieved a breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of K.N. Ramajeyam, brother of former Transport Minister K.N. Nehru, in Tiruchi in March 2012 but required an additional three months’ time to complete the probe and make the details public.
The submissions were made in a report filed before Justice S. Nagamuthu who was seized of a petition filed by Mr. Ramajeyam’s wife last year seeking a CBI probe in the case. After perusing the report, the judge said: “It appears they have made some breakthrough… Some substantive progress has been made but details cannot be disclosed.”
Appearing on behalf of the petitioner, R. Latha Ramajeyam, senior counsel S. Shanmugasundaram said: “I don’t want to reveal certain things they (CB-CID sleuths) are doing. The petitioner’s son, a student, has been called for enquiry about 60 times. I don’t think they are going in the right line. I am losing faith in them day by day.”
“Some useful investigation”
However, when the judge pointed out that the report disclosed that the CB-CID had indeed done “some useful investigation,” the senior counsel agreed to granting time till December 18 to the investigating agency to unravel the mystery behind the murder.
CB-CID Superintendent of Police T.S. Anbu too told the court that he was “very hopeful” of cracking the case.
Later, the judge adjourned the hearing in the case to December 18 and directed the Registrar (Judicial) of the High Court Bench to keep the CB-CID’s report in a sealed cover.
Mr. Ramajeyam had been murdered by unidentified assailants during his morning walk at Thillai Nagar in Tiruchi on March 29, 2012. His body was recovered from a bush on the banks of the Cauvery near Thiruvalarsolai on the same day.
“It appears they have made some breakthrough… Some substantive progress has been made but details cannot be disclosed”
