Hyderabad: Though it is over 48 hours since Raj Kumar allegedly stabbed to death six persons, including a teenager who filed a Pocso complaint against him, Future City police have failed to trace the culprit. Police said that Raj Kumar was last seen at Timmapur railway station and they are still clueless about his whereabouts.A car, used at the time of commission of the offence, was traced near Thimmapur railway station on Saturday. Later, police found that the car was taken on rent by the accused on Thursday, a day before the series of murders. As the car ran out of fuel, police suspect the accused abandoned the vehicle near the railway station. The investigators said Raj Kumar used his wife’s phone to make a payment to the car owner.“After abandoning the car, he went towards the main road near the railway station. Subsequently, we did not get any clues to know how and where he went. Either he must have taken a vehicle and gone by road or returned to the railway station and boarded a train or entered the nearby bushes to take cover and then escape. Searches were done extensively in the nearby areas, but there was no breakthrough,” Future City police told TOI.Future City police commissioner Tarun Joshi has formed 12 teams to trace the fugitive, but till reports came in on Sunday night, they were clueless. Since the accused was not using a phone and he was not caught on CCTVs, police were struggling to get leads.The accused on Friday night first went to the residence of Pocso case victim at Shabad, where he killed her mother and grandmother, police stated. He forced the 16-year-old teenager into the car and took her to a nearby lake, where he allegedly slit her throat. He then returned to his home and continued the killing spree, attacking his wife and two minor sons, police added.Further validating the allegations levelled by the minor victim’s relatives of “inaction by police” in nabbing Raj Kumar after the stalking complaint in May, a local court in its order on June 12 stated that the investigators had not taken the accused into custody after the case was registered. This was one of the grounds cited by the court while granting anticipatory bail.
