CHENNAI: Accused Ramjayam alias Appu (26), who allegedly murdered pawn-cum-jewellery shop owner Ganesh Ram in his shop in Maduravoyal a month ago and escaped with a bag full of jewellery, initially thought that the loot weighed at least 100 sovereigns. Later, he found that it contained just six sovereigns of gold jewellery; the rest was imitation jewellery.Ramjayam was a frequent visitor to Maduravoyal, where his relative Pandian lived. During one such visit the stocky Ramjayam noticed a lean Ganesh Ram sitting alone in his shop on NT Patel Road. Assuming that Ram won’t put up resistance, he decided to rob him, police sources said. The next day, the 26-year-old walked into the shop under the pretext of buying gold jewellery and showed Ganesh Ram the design of a chain stored in his mobile phone. When Ganesh walked into a room to bring out more jewellery, Ramjayam followed him inside and slit his throat after overpowering him from behind. Later, he escaped with a bag full of jewellery.Police sources said when he tried to sell the stolen jewellery, he realised that there was only six sovereigns in the chunk while the rest was about a kilo of junk. “He tried to sell the jewels in a shop in the same area where he found that most of it was imitation,” an official said.IT Grad, Wannabe PilotRamjayam, the only son of farmer Arumugam of Parangipettai, had to repay a loan of `10 lakh that he had taken to start a business with a Singapore-based doctor, Jai. Police said Dr Jai escaped with his money, forcing Ramjayam to take to crime to pay back the loan.Ramjayam had completed BE in Computer Science from a private engineering college on Old Mahabalipuram Road in 2007 following which he completed a 10-month flying course in Colombo, Sri Lanka.Police said he met Dr Jai when he was undergoing pilot training and the two decided to start a business. “The deal was that he should bring `10 lakh cash for which he would get `20 lakh worth medicines from the doctor. But the doctor escaped with the money. After he passed out from college, he did not work anywhere,” a police official said. Meanwhile, his loan was accumulating interest and he decided to commit an offence to repay it, the police added. Loot in Lover’s HousePolice said Ramjayam was in love with a woman, who was the sister-in-law of a traffic police constable. The accused, after his studies, had been shuttling between his hometown, a rented house at Moore Street, Periamet and his lover’s house at Thousand Lights for stay.Police sources said that after he discovered that most of the jewellery he had stolen from the Maduravoyal shop was fake, he brought the whole chunk to his lover’s house and kept them there in a packet. Police said they recovered the jewellery and the T-shirt he was wearing on the day of the crime.Police also recovered a knife, tape, hand gloves, an insect killer spray, a bag and a two-wheeler from him when he was caught at Pallikaranai. “He would have probably met the girl while studying in college. We even inquired with the traffic constable but he was not aware of Ramjayam’s involvement in offences and claims to have not seen newspapers or television when the video grab was released soon after the murder,” a police official said.
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