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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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
