Designer murder case shifted back to Kanpur police

On Wednesday,in response to a writ petition filed by Bajpai’s father Surya Kumar Bajpai,the court ordered DIG Kanpur,Prem Prakash,to shift the investigation back to Kalyanpur police.

In a telephonic conversation from Mumbai,Bajpai said: “The Kalyanpur police has completed around 75 per cent of the investigation,so there was no point in shifting the investigation to CB-CID.”

The CB-CID,he said,will take longer to crack the case. “So I appealed to court that the investigation should remain with the Kalyanpur police,” he said.

Bajpai said he was not informed about the shifting of the case to CB-CID by either the district police or the state government.

“When the Kalyanpur police is about to solve the case,the logic behind shifting the investigation is hard to understand,” he said.

Confirming that the case was handed over on Thursday,Deputy Inspector General,Kanpur,Prem Prakash said the main accused,former IIT-Kanpur student Rahul Verma will soon be interrogated.

“In addition to past information,fresh details will be sought too,” he added.

Mumbai-based designer Aadesh Bajpai was in Kanpur on August 10,2008 to meet his relatives. He went missing on August 10. On August 23,a human skull and 16 bones were recovered from IIT-K. When data from Bajpai’s cellphone indicated that he was present near IIT-K on August 10,the police concluded that the human remains found in IIT-K were his. These were sent for DNA test,but the forensic experts from Hyderabad’s Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics failed to extract the DNA.

His relatives said Bajpai had gone to IIT-K on August 10 with a student,Rahul Verma,whom he had met through social networking site Orkut.