At 6.30pm on December 18 last year, Kumar Ajitabh had gone out to meet a prospective customer, who wanted to buy Kumar’s one-year-old car, a Maruti Suzuki Ciaz. Since then, the 32-year-old techie, who worked at the BT Group at Bellandur in south-east Bengaluru, remains missing. There is no trace of his car and iPhone, which remains switched off.
Ajitabh’s father, Ashok Kumar Sinha, who came from his native place Patna to look for his missing son, has been in Bengaluru ever since. The retired banker is going from pillar to post, literally begging everyone from police officers to the judiciary for a speedy investigation.
The police have no clue. All that they could find is the “browsing history” on Ajitabh’s laptop, which was in the flat where he was staying with four others.
It showed Ajitabh’s plan to sell off his car and he had posted an advertisement on online marketplace OLX. Before leaving the house, he had also used a map to locate the place where he was going to meet the prospective buyer.
His passport, luggage and even clothes were in the house, suggesting that the techie had no intention to leave the city.
Police could recover the SIM number and the phone which was used by the person who had called Ajitabh. The handset was with a truck driver, who confessed to have found it on the road in Yeshwanthpur in north-western Bengaluru. The SIM was in the name of one Sabeena in Kolar, nearly 70 km from the Karnataka capital. According to police, someone probably had used her documents to obtain the SIM.
“I am completely shattered,” 65-yearold Sinha told ET. “It’s a shame that the government and the police cannot protect innocent citizens. I have asked the high court to direct the state government to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. I also went to New Delhi and handed over a representation to the Prime Minister and the home minister’s office to speed up the case.”
Ajitabh completed B. Tech in Manipal Institute of Technology in Udupi and worked for four years with Tata Consultancy Services in Bengaluru, before moving to BT Group. He had also secured admission to study executive MBA at IIM-Calcutta.
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