Techie Ajitabh missing case: HC orders CBI probe
Bengaluru, October 22: The Karnataka High Court has ordered CBI probe into the missing case of software engineer Kumar Ajitabh from Whitefield of Bengaluru.
Hearing a petition filed by Ajitabh’s father Ashok Kumar Sinha from Bihar demanding CBI enquiry into his son’s missing case on November 18, 2017, the Single Judge Bench headed by Justice Aravind Kumar ordered CBI probe into the case.
Ajitabh has been working as a software engineer in the British Telecom Company at Bellandur in the city for the last five years. He went outside of his house to show his car to a person who asked his car for buying in OLX and went missing.
Later, a complaint was lodged at Whitefield police station on Ajithab’s missing. When the police have failed to get any indication about Ajitabh, his father moved the High Court seeking CBI probe into the case. The Single Judge Bench had directed the government to constitute a Special Investigation Team to investigate the case. Though the SIT officials tried in all angles, they have failed to establish a breakthrough in the case as they did not get cooperation from the neighbouring states investigating agencies. Following this, the High Court ordered CBI investigation into the case.
The Bench observed that CBI investigation was necessary to take the case to a logical end. During investigation, some reports should be taken from international agencies. Submit all documents collected by the SIT to the CBI which will not face any problem in communication and coordination as it is a national investigation agency. This decision would help the CBI to get cooperation from state agencies in its investigation, the Court observed.
Already, CID team has collected information through call records, Google check-up and Interpol. But still, there is no information about the missing techie.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
