The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the State’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to produce original investigation records of the case related to Kumar Ajitabh, a software engineer, who went missing on December 18, 2017.
Justice Aravind Kumar passed the order after perusing the investigation report submitted by the SIT. The court directed that the investigation report be kept in a sealed cover.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Ashok Kumar Sinha, father of Ajitab, seeking a direction to hand over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Ajitabh, who went to meet an unknown person on December 18, 2017 for selling his car, for which he had advertised though an online portal, is untraceable till now.
Initially, the probe was conducted by the Whitefield police. Later, a SIT was formed under the direct control of the Police Commissioner on the suggestion made by the High Court.
However, the case was then transferred to the CID after the Commissioner expressed inability before the court to spare more police personnel to probe the case following declaration of Assembly elections. The CID had constituted an SIT to probe the case.