The Madras High Court on Monday closed a petition pending before it since last year with a direction to a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2012 murder of K.N. Ramajeyam, brother of Municipal Administration Minister K.N. Nehru, to complete the investigation and file a final report before the jurisdictional court as early as possible.
Justice G. Jayachandran passed the orders on the petition filed by the victim’s other brother N. Ravichandran, who had approached the court last year for getting the investigation transferred from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to State police, due to the former’s failure to make any breakthrough since it took over the probe in 2017.
Accepting the petitioner’s request, Justice V. Bharathidasan (since retired) in February 2022 ordered constitution of the SIT comprising State police officers and included a CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police too in the team to continue the probe and decided to monitor the investigation through periodical status reports to be filed in the court.
