Rahul Missing case concerns a seven year old boy, who went missing on 18 May 2005, while playing with friends in his neighborhood near Alappuzha

Alappuzha

Alappuzha , also known as Alleppey, is a town in Alappuzha District of Kerala state of southern India. As per 2001 census Alleppey is the sixth largest city in Kerala with an urban population of 177,029. Alleppey is situated to the south of Kochi and north of Trivandrum...

 in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The local police

Kerala Police

The Kerala State Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The Police training college was set up by Travancore Maharaja in Thiruvananthapuram in mid 20th centuary. In 2004,a larger Kerala...

 that investigated the case could not find any evidences and the case is at present being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation

Central Bureau of Investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation is a government agency of India that serves as a criminal investigation body, national security agency and intelligence agency. It was established on 1 April 1963 and evolved from the Special Police Establishment founded in 1941...

, India's premier investigating agency.

Background of the Case

Rahul, the only son of Raju, was playing with his friends in the neighborhood when he took a break and went to drink water from a public tap in the corner of the playground. He was last seen by friends that a bearded middle-aged man was standing near to Rahul who snatched his cricket bat and threw it to friends.

His friends collected the bat and continued playing. Later they noticed that Rahul was not playing with them.

Enquiries

The local police that investigated the case had questioned many people including a neighborhood middle aged man. Later they found that the person’s statements were false and fabricated.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the boy is still continuing as there are no tangible evidences being found. CBI had questioned different people including his neighbors.

In February 2006, the CBI had decided to make a neighborhood youth to undergo a narco analysis test and approached the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court for permission. The court later commented that no special permission is needed to conduct a test. Earlier the alleged person had undergone a polygraph

Polygraph

A polygraph measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions...

 test also. But again there was not much evidences being found.

Current status

The local police and the CBI are clueless as they could not find any tangible evidences till now, despite the all different enquiries. However, it is widely believed that he was kidnapped

Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...

, but no other information available as whether the child is alive or murdered.