Bengaluru: Techie, who left home to meet prospective buyer for his car, goes missing

BENGALURU: A 30-year-old software engineer who went missing under mysterious circumstances on Monday remained untraced until late on Saturday. Whitefield police, who registered a missing case on Wednesday, said they are making efforts to trace Kumar Ajitabh, a British Telecom employee, but the fact that his phone has remained switched off is proving to be a hurdle.His roommates told police Ajitabh had put up his car for sale on online marketplace OLX on Monday and had left home after he got a call from an unknown person wishing to meet him regarding the car.He left around 6.30pm, presumably to meet the caller, but didn’t return. The roommates said he was active on WhatsApp till 7.10pm that day. His last mobile tower location was traced to Gunjur near Whitefield.Ajitabh’s parents have been informed, and police said they have already procured his call detail record data. His friends told cops he had just been selected for an executive MBA at IIM Kolkata and was selling the car to fund his education.