Man who claimed to have killed A Raja’s aide goes missing

New Delhi, Aug 17 (PTI) The man who had claimed to havemurdered Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom MinisterA Raja and important witness in the 2G case, has gone missingbefore CBI could question him. The agency was planning to question 24-year-old KPrabhakaran, who had claimed in a press conference on May 17that he had killed Batcha in 2011 and named a senior IPSofficer and a relative of Batcha as partners in crime. Prabhakaran had claimed Batcha was murdered after he gaveCBI "vital information" that went against Raja, the mainaccused in the 2G case. Since his press conference, despite best efforts of CBI,Prabhakaran could not be traced. The agency has now launched a manhunt to trace him as hisclaims could change the nature of the 2G spectrum allocationscam case. The death case of Batcha might be changed to thatof murder. And important persons may be named in the case. Agency sources said local police were not cooperating inthe probe and some officers have even gone to the extent ofdescribing Prabhakaran as mentally unstable. The sources said his family has also claimed that they donot know the whereabouts of Prabhakaran. Batcha was found hanging under mysterious circumstancesin 2011. He was questioned repeatedly by CBI as the agencysuspected him to be the person whose company was used to routealleged bribes of 2G scam. The agency had used the services of forensic experts fromthe AIIMS to detect whether Batcha was killed but even afterdetailed examination, it did not find anything which cansubstantiate the murder hypothesis, the CBI sources said. Batcha had left a suicide note stating that he was"embarrassed" by the raids of various enforcement agencies andthe extensive media coverage. The agency had concluded thatthe suicide note was written by Prabhakaran himself. PTI ABSSMN ZMNSMN