The CBI on Wednesday arrested a first-year-student Rahul Verma of IIM-Lucknow for the murder of Mumbai-based fashion designer Aadesh Bajpai in Kanpur in the year 2008. Rahul was then a BTech student at IIT-Kanpur. A CBI court remanded Rahul in three-day police custody.
CBI team searched his IIM-hostel room and his house at Lucknow's Indranagar and seized his laptop and some documents. Investigators said that both Aadesh and Rahul had met on a website for gays and were in touch through a social network site.
Aadesh had come to Kanpur from Mumbai on August 10, 2008 to meet his cousin Vivek Trivedi. He told him that he was going to meet his friend at IIT-Kanpur. He went missing after that.
He was last seen with Rahul Verma on August 10th. After Aadesh's murder, Kanpur police visited the IIT-Kanpur campus and questioned several students, including Rahul. About 13 days after Aadesh disappeared, the police found his skull and 16 bones dug in a place near the campus.
His parents, camping in Kanpur, said that the skull seemed to be that of their son. A sample was sent for DNA testing to the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hydrebad. Kanpur police later informed the Aadesh's family that DNA from the samples could not be extracted. But the second sample sent to Hydrebad confirmed that the remains were of Aadesh.
The police worked on the case for nearly 20 months. On April 1,2010, the case was suddenly transferred to the CBCID. Aadesh's father Surya kumar Bajpai then approached the Allahabad High Court seeking transfer of the case back to the district police on the grounds that about 75% of the probe was complete. In May 2010, the court ordered the case to be returned to the Kanpur police.
Aadesh's family again approached the High Court. They had a fear that the investigation was being influenced and demanded a CBI probe. The probe was then handed over to the CBI.
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