LUCKNOW: A special CBI court in Lucknow Saturday found Rahul Vermaan alumnus of IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Lucknow, guilty of murdering 30-year-old Mumbai-based fashion designer Adesh Bajpai in 2008. The court will announce the quantum of punishment on May 22.
Rahul was arrested in 2012 after a detailed scientific investigation confirmed his hand in the gruesome murder of Adesh, whom he had met through an online portal meant for same sex partners.He was charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping) and 120 B. (criminal conspiracy).
CBI filed a chargesheet in April 2012 against Rahul, who had completed his MTech and was studying at IIM-Lucknow at that time. Adesh had visited Kanpur to meet Rahul in Aug 2008, after which he went missing. On Aug 10, the victim met his cousin Vivek Trivedi at Moolganj in Kanpur. Trivedi later informed police that after their meeting, Adesh left with a friend for IIT-K. Nothing was heard from him thereafter, following which his worried father Suryakant lodged a missing person report on Aug 16.
Adesh’s cellphone records indicated his presence at IIT-K on Aug 10, leading police to suspect it to be a kidnapping case. Investigations took a significant turn when human remains, including a skull, were discovered in a ditch on IIT-Kanpur campus on Aug 23. In 2010, following an order of Allahabad HC, the probe was handed over to CBI.
CBI turned to Lalji Singh, a pioneer in DNA fingerprinting, for assistance. Singh recommended extracting DNA from the bones at LaCONE, a lab under the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. The lab extracted DNA from the bones, confirming a match with Adesh’s mother.
Rahul was arrested in 2012 after a detailed scientific investigation confirmed his hand in the gruesome murder of Adesh, whom he had met through an online portal meant for same sex partners.He was charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping) and 120 B. (criminal conspiracy).
CBI filed a chargesheet in April 2012 against Rahul, who had completed his MTech and was studying at IIM-Lucknow at that time. Adesh had visited Kanpur to meet Rahul in Aug 2008, after which he went missing. On Aug 10, the victim met his cousin Vivek Trivedi at Moolganj in Kanpur. Trivedi later informed police that after their meeting, Adesh left with a friend for IIT-K. Nothing was heard from him thereafter, following which his worried father Suryakant lodged a missing person report on Aug 16.
Adesh’s cellphone records indicated his presence at IIT-K on Aug 10, leading police to suspect it to be a kidnapping case. Investigations took a significant turn when human remains, including a skull, were discovered in a ditch on IIT-Kanpur campus on Aug 23. In 2010, following an order of Allahabad HC, the probe was handed over to CBI.
CBI turned to Lalji Singh, a pioneer in DNA fingerprinting, for assistance. Singh recommended extracting DNA from the bones at LaCONE, a lab under the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. The lab extracted DNA from the bones, confirming a match with Adesh’s mother.