London, Jan 6: The distraught parents of murdered Indian student Anuj Bidve have met with the authorities here and pleaded for justice for their son who was shot dead on Boxing Day. They were expected to return to India with Anuj's body Saturday.

Subhash Bidve, Anuj's father, met with Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz Thursday to discuss the police investigation into his son's death.

He flew into Britain Wednesday with Anuj's mother Yogini and brother-in-law Rakesh Sonawane and the family is due to return to India with Anuj's body Saturday.

Bidve revealed how he sent his son Anuj to study engineering in England because he wanted the best for him.

Kiaran Stapleton, 20, of Ordsall, has been charged with his murder.

Bidve was studying at Lancaster University and was visiting Greater Manchester over Christmas.

He was shot in the head at close range at 01:30 GMT.

"It was really unfortunate that I lost my son. But I feel myself as a father this should not happen again because a lot of Indian students come here for their education and they go back to their own countries," the Daily Mail quoted Bidve as saying after meeting the authorities here.

"I humbly request to you all kindly do justice for Anuj.

"He studied engineering in India in an inner city. He was a very brilliant student and he was working on some core engineering, like in micro-electronic chips engineering.

"He was working on his really special projects and he was very happy staying here and doing his work. He was a very great asset not just to India but the whole globe, that was the kind of work he was doing.

"He was really straightforward, very disciplined, very softly spoken and very friendly to everyone and a very good son to me.

"I wanted to give him the best. As a father that's what I wanted," the devastated father said.

Vaz said he had passed on his condolences to the family during the meeting and updated them on contact he had received from well-wishers since the killing on Boxing Day.

He pledged to get a full report on the incidents surrounding the death of Bidve following the completion of the criminal proceedings. 

"They want to know what happened. They had mortgaged their house, they were due to come to England in September for his ceremony of convocation.

"They never thought they would come in circumstances of this kind. What actually happened on that night? For purely legal reasons they are unable to contact obviously the people who were there on the night.

"Unless they have full information there can never be closure because they simply can't understand how this has happened," Vaz said.