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Chennai: The Chennai police on Sunday said they had arrested a 26-year-old engineer from Periamet, for the murder of Maduravoyal pawnbroker B Gunaram.
The arrest of A Ramajayam alias Appu was made almost a month after the murder on April 14, when CCTV cameras recorded images of the killer, moments before he slashed the pawnbroker’s throat and fled with more than half a kilo of jewellery.
The police caught Ramajayam when he attempted to rob a woman, Chandraprabha, on Saturday at her apartment in Meenakshipuram, Pallikaranai.
“He brandished a knife at Chandraprabha and asked her to give him her gold chain,” a police officer said. “When Chandraprabha raised an alarm, he attacked her with the knife.” Chandraprabha’s daughter Rakhi came to her rescue and Ramajayam attacked her too. Neighbours caught him when he tried to escape and handed him over to the police.
During interrogation, Ramajayam, who said he completed a BE course, confessed to the murder of Gunaram. He told investigators that he killed the pawnbroker to repay a loan of 10 lakh. Of the half kilogram of jewellery he stole, only 6 sovereigns were genuine gold. Pawnbroker was killed for fake gold jewellery Looted Ornaments After Murdering Man At His Shop Sindhu Kannan TNN
Chennai: All that glitters is not gold, but when a robber has just enough time to kill, grab the loot and run, proverbs don’t necessarily weigh in.
Ramajayam, too, didn’t have the time to think whether the half a kilogram of ‘gold jewellery’ he bagged after murdering a pawnbroker at his shop at Nerkundram were fake. As fate would have it, the ‘gold pieces’ he stole from the shop were mostly imitation jewellery.
A probe officer said: “Ramajayam took the stolen jewellery to a gold shop in the suburbs and tried to sell some. There he found out that the gold he was carrying was fake. But what he didn’t know was that amid the fake pieces were six sovereigns of gold jewellery,” said the officer.
Ramajayam told the police that he planned the murder and robbery to pay off a Rs 10-lakh loan he had run up for a job. According to him, the cash was passed on to a doctor in Singapore who promised to jumpstart his career in Colombo.
Ramajayam told police that he met the doctor, Jai, in Colombo. He put together the money from moneylenders for Jai, who took the money and absconded, pushing him into a financial crunch.
In his confessional statement to the police, Ramajayam said he checked out the shop for two days when he visited one of his friends in Maduravoyal. “He noticed the pawnbroker, B Gunaram, was alone most of the time. He was sure that he could easily overpower diminutive Gunaram,” said joint commissioner of police (West) K Shankar.
On May 14, he walked into the shop with a gold chain and asked Gunaram if he could get another piece of the same make. When the pawnbroker walked into a room, Ramajayan tailed him and slit his throat.
“Ramajayam was in love with the sister-in-law of a police constable. The couple planned to get married soon. He shuttled between Chidambaram, Periamet and Thousand Lights, looking for a job, said a senior police officer.
He deposited the fake jewellery at the policeman’s house, telling them that they were given by the doctor to even out with him. The traffic cop told the police that he was not aware of the murder episode and the CCTV footage.
“Ramajayam didn’t go out for two days when he saw his photo in the newspapers. But when people failed to recognize him, he decided to grow a beard to conceal his identity,” said a senior police officer.
Based on his confession, police seized gloves, cell phones, a spray to kill insects and a tape from the bag. He always carried the bag with him and also used five to six different cell phones, according to the police.