IIT Alumnus Gets Life Sentence in Fashion Designer Murder Case

Lucknow: An IIT alumnus, Rahul Verma, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court in Lucknow in the murder of Mumbai-based fashion designer Adesh Bajpai in 2008.

CBI chargesheet, Bajpai had come to Lucknow from Mumbai on August 4 and had then gone to Kanpur on August 10 from where he was reported missing.

The deceased Bajpai and the convict Verma were members of a group.

A gunny bag with human remains was found in the IIT-Kanpur compound. The remains were confirmed as Bajpai’s as the Chandigarh-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) conducted a skull superimposition test, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, the mitochondrial DNA analysis of bones recovered from the IIT-Kanpur’s premises and the CFSL-Delhi conducted the forensic psychological assessment of Verma.

The DNA reports conclusively proved that human remains found in IIT-Kanpur belonged to Bajpai. The forensic tests and circumstantial evidences nailed Verma in this murder case.

Verma was arrested on January 24, 2012.