BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday ordered the State Government to transfer the ongoing investigation into the missing of techie Kumar Ajitabh to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Justice Aravind Kumar passed this order while pronouncing the judgement on the petition filed by Ashok Kumar Sinha, father of Ajitabh, seeking transfer of case to CBI from Whitefield police.
In the order, the High Court said that the CBI, being a central agency is in a better position and can co-ordinate, collate the multiple leads obtained in the case and take the investigation to its logical end.
Ajitabh went missing when he left home after receiving a call from a prospective buyer of his car which he had advertised on online marketplace OLX on December 18, 2017.
After Sinha moved the court seeking directions to handover the case to CBI as there was no lead in the case, the government handed over the investigation to the special investigation unit of CID.