Investigating agency CBI will grill more suspects in the Ranjan Bhattacharjee missing case. Ranjan, who was employed in a private telecom company, was a colleague of Pankaj Dubey, the main accused in the serial murder case of 2010.
CBI officers will probe Bhattacharjee’s acquaintance Mohammed Kabir at the Ranchi office on Monday to get further details on the missing person. Earlier, Bhattacharjee’s another acquaintance Pankaj Dubey was from Ghaghidih Central Jail to the CBI's Ranchi office for interrogation. Kabir, who is presently lodged at the MGM Medical College and Hospital's prisoners' ward that a production warrant has already been issued from a Ranchi court and he will be taken to Ranchi by the CBI for interrogation. A senior official of the Ghatshila Sub-jail also confirmed that they have received a production warrant from the CBI's Ranchi office for sending Kabir for interrogation in connection to the Ranjan Bhattacharjee missing case.
Earlier on Wednesday, Pankaj Dubey, who is lodged in the Ghaghidih Central Jail in connection with the 2010 serial murders in steel city had also been taken to the CBI's Ranchi office. Notably, the CBI sleuths from the Ranchi circle had been to the steel city for as many as seven times, met the family members of missing persons and left the steel city without making any progress in the case.
Rajat Bhattacharya, elder brother of the missing person, said that after almost a year-long efforts by the CBI offficials from the Ranchi circle, the sleuths from Delhi have come to detect the whereabouts of his brother. Notably, Ranjan who was a co-accused in the 2009 serial murder case is missing from near his house at Vijaya Garden in Birsanagar under Telco police station area on January 25, 2010. The same day, Pankaj Dubey was arrested from his house in Jugsalai. In an FIR lodged by Ranjan's father Ratindra Nath Bhattacharya, it has been mentioned here that a few minutes before Ranjan's disappearance two unknown persons had visited their house. After making some preliminary investigation, the CBI had declared a reward of Rs1 lakh to anyone providing any information leading to the recovery of Ranjan. However, later they increased the reward to Rs5 lakh and had also carried out a widespread poster campaign in search of the missing person.