The Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of a notice to the State government on a petition seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the disappearance of Kumar Ajitabh. The software engineer has not been seen after apparently going out on December 18, 2017 to meet a person who expressed interest in purchasing his car. He had put his car for sale on an online portal.
Justice A.S. Bopanna passed the order on a petition filed by Ashok Kumar Sinha, father of Ajitabh.
Pointing out that the city police have not able to trace his son despite registration of two FIRs, one on December 20 and another on December 29, the petitioner suspected that his son might have been abducted for gain or may have fallen prey to a gang involved in organ trafficking or a mafia, which wants to use Ajitabh’s IT skills for anti-national activities.
Ajitabh, an employee of British Telecom, had put up an advertisement in November last year offering to sell his Maruti Suzuki Ciaz car. The petitioner said that his son wanted to sell the car to partly fund his higher studies as Ajitabh had secured admission in IIM Calcutta.
