The CBI’s investigation into the murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s aide leveraged data from the victim’s iPhone stored on iCloud. By examining the phone’s location history, investigators were able to pinpoint a riverbank near a rural area in West Bengal where the suspects had gone.
The GPS traces revealed that the killers had used the phone to coordinate their escape, which allowed law‑enforcement officers to set a trap. The suspects were later apprehended on the riverbank, and the evidence gathered from the iCloud logs was used to build a case against them.
This operation demonstrates how digital evidence, even from cloud‑based services, can provide critical leads in high‑profile murder investigations. The CBI has announced that the case will be forwarded to the West Bengal Police for further action.
