Sitabuldi cops and the crime branch seem to be still groping in the dark in 19-year-old Abhilasha Sayyam's murder case. Just like the Sayyam
case, the murder case of high school teacher Pradeep Meshram too has remained unsolved. Police is still clueless in both the cases.
After Sitabuldi police, crime branch officials too quizzed Abhilasha's parents - Homraj and Laxmibai - for a prolonged period last week. Apart from the parents, the other family members were also summoned to the crime branch for cross-questioning. Statements of Abhilasha's friends and their family members were also recorded by the crime branch sleuths who also conducted a parallel investigation.
According to the latest investigation, Sitabuldi cops have learnt that Abhilasha was with her friend with whom she had maximum conservations over the telephone on the rainy November 16 night. The friend, who met Abhilasha at 11.15 pm near a shopping complex at Ramdaspeth, escorted her half-way to her residence. They bid each other adieu at 1.20 am and proceeded to their respective houses. It has been learnt that Abhilasha's friend had claimed that he returned to his Juni Mangalwari residence while his college mate headed to her home at Lendra Park in Ramdaspeth.
Abhilasha, who had left home saying she was going to a hospital where one of her friends was admitted, went missing since then. It was learnt that Abhilasha had two prolonged conversations before she left home. To trace Abhilasha, her family members got the phone call details of their landline number. Abhilasha, who worked for a sales agency at Abhyankar Nagar, did not have a mobile phone after the one that she had developed some technical snag. The phone call records indicated that Abhilasha was friendly with a youth who was with her on the day she went missing.
The Sayyams had lodged a missing complaint at Sitabuldi station. Her family members, who are also under the scanner, were left stunned after Abhilasha's body was fished out from the nullah at Canal road. There was a deep injury mark on Abhilasha's head which prompted the police to register a case of murder. Abhilasha's friends have been already intensively grilled but nothing has surfaced.