Ramaraj remanded in judicial custody

CHENNAI: It was with a rifle that Lt Col K Ramaraj, a retired army engineer, purchased during his posting in Jabalpur that he had shot teenager K Dilshan, from the balcony of the first-floor apartment at the defence quarters on Flagstaff Road.Soon after the incident, when speculation was rife over the involvement of Army personnel in the killing, the military had claimed that all its arms and ammunition in the Central armoury were intact.The children, who lived in the slum colonies near the defence quarters on Flagstaff Road, repeatedly trespassed into the defence quarters.“They scaled the walls, climbed trees, plucked mangoes and threw stones on the almond kernels to bring them down,” said R Sekar ADGP, CB-CID. “The accused person had been living in the defence quarters for the last two and half years… He had warned them on several occasions…On that particular day, he had shot the boy,” Sekar added.Ramaraj was arrested and produced before the George Town court for killing Dilshan. The court remanded him in judicial custody. He was lodged in the Puzhal prison.