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Ex-army officer gets life term for killing Chennai boy
Friday April 20, 2012 04:42:16 PM,
IANS
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Chennai
boy's murder cracked: Retired army officer held
A week after
a 13-year-old boy was killed in a military residential campus
here, a 50-year-old retired army officer was arrested Sunday for
the crime after he confessed that he was irritated by the boy's
trespassing, police said.
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Chennai: Retired army officer K. Ramaraj was sentenced to life
imprisonment by a fast track court here Friday for last year's
killing of a 13-year-old boy who had entered his residential
premises to pick almonds.
The court also levied a fine of Rs.60,000 on Lt. Col. (retd)
Ramaraj, 50, of which Rs.50,000 has to be given to the family of
the victim, K. Dilshan, said a prosecution lawyer.
The judge also found Ramaraj guilty under two sections of the Arms
Act and awarded him prison terms of three years and one year each,
besides a fine of Rs.10,000.
All the sentences would run concurrently.
The shooting of the boy for trespassing raised a nationwide
uproar, with people demanding exemplary punishment for the killer.
Reacting to the judgment, Dilshan's mother K. Kalaivani told
reporters assembled at the court: "I am happy. It is a good
judgment. This will be a lesson to everybody. Such incidents
should not happen to anyone, anywhere in the world."
A prosecution lawyer told reporters that the hearing by the court
began in September and ended April 11. Around 55 witnesses were
examined by the court. The police had submitted 45 exhibits and 13
material objects, besides the murder weapon.
Tamil Nadu Police cracked the case within a week of the killing of
the boy.
According to police, Ramaraj was irritated by the boy trespassing
into residential premises housing retired and serving army
officials to pick up almond nuts.
Police had charged that Dilshan was shot by Ramaraj from the
balcony of his residence July 3 afternoon when the boy and his
friends residing nearby entered the residential campus to pluck
almonds.
Dilshan was fatally wounded and succumbed to injuries in a
hospital. Ramaraj has three sons serving in the army.
The murder investigation was taken over by the Crime
Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID). Police had
initially suspected some other official but later ruled out his
involvement and zeroed in on Ramaraj.
According to police, Ramaraj, who retired from service last year,
had acquired a 0.30 calibre Springfield rifle in 2004 when he was
posted in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The gun licence had expired
and Ramaraj had applied for licence renewal.
The army officers here were not aware that Ramaraj was in
possession of a rifle. Ramaraj had later thrown the rifle in Cooum
river here. It was recovered by police.
According to the CB-CID, extensive searches were carried out at
the place of shooting and a bullet component was recovered and
sent for ballistic tests to ascertain the type of weapon used.
Initially, it was thought that three boys, including Dilshan, had
entered the campus. But the investigation established the presence
of a fourth boy, who gave information about the probable
involvement of Ramaraj in the shooting.
Twelve probe teams were constituted to crack the case.
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