The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has mentioned a prisoner lodged in Thiruvananthapuram’s Poojapura central jail has knowledgeable the company {that a} fellow inmate of his when he was jailed in Kollam jail instructed him he knew the whereabouts of faculty scholar Jesna Maria James, who disappeared from Kerala’s Pathanamthitta 5 years again.
Individuals conscious of the matter mentioned the CBI made inquiries and located the small print have been kind of appropriate however the individual claiming to know the whereabouts was absconding since leaping bail in a theft case final yr. The company has sought the assistance of the native police to hint the absconding man, who can be from Pathanamthitta.
The Kerala excessive court docket handed over James’s case to the CBI in 2021 after her brother complained native police and later crime department investigations did not make any headway.
James went lacking in March 2018 after she left house to go to a relative in Kottayam.
A Particular Investigation Crew shaped to look into the disappearance did not get any leads. The case was handed over to the crime department and a money reward of ₹5 lakh was additionally introduced for any info on James’s whereabouts.
Some Christian outfits alleged she was transformed and brought to Syria just like the 21 lacking individuals from north Kerala who reportedly travelled to the West Asian nation in 2016. However police mentioned they discovered no proof to again this declare within the case of James.