Bengaluru, Oct 22: Nearly a year after city-based software engineer Kumar Ajitabh went missing under mysterious circumstances, the High Court of Karnataka today transferred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The court said that it would be better for the investigation if the case is transferred to the CBI as the special investigation team of State’s CID had secured multiple leads across the country. And the CBI can handles the case better since it has all-India presence.
Justice Aravind Kumar passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Ashok Kumar Sinha, father of the missing techie.
29-year-old Ajitabh went missing in December 2017 after he after her took his Maruti Ciaz car to a buyer he met on the online site OLX.
The CID, which was probing the case, had initially suspected Ajitabh might had gone to an ashram as his family members are ardent followers of the swamiji of the ashram in Raj Vidya Kendra located in New Delhi. A few investigators had visited the ashram but have not found anything yet as there were problems regarding access to its members.
The family, however, says they do not buy into the suspicion and that Ajitabh could not have decided to run away from them.
Pragya, Ajitabh’s sister, says that Ajitabh could not have gone to the ashram and questions whether his car was found in the vicinity of the ashram’s office in New Delhi.
“His phone went off in Varthur. So, did the phone of the man who had contacted him on OLX. Ajitabh loved his family. He was excited about going to IIM Kolkata. He would never put his family through so much misery and run away to some ashram. He was ambitious. The CID is only trying to pin this on the ashram because they have no leads. Where is his car? We know there was another person with him. What happened to that suspect?” Pragya asks.
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