P-Cygni profiles of Balmer lines leads to its classification as a Type II SN.

The broadband light curve and the initial spectral evolution of SN 2008in were similar to those of normal Type IIP SNe. However, from mid-plateau, the SN started to show a few spectral features (like ) which are similar to under-luminous events.  was also observed in the radio with the Very Large Array (VLA) on 2008 December 31.40 UT in two frequency bands at 8.4601 and 22.4601 GHz [@Stockdale08]. Observation for the second epoch was further reported by @Stockdale09 on 2009 January 27. Interacting Type II SNe, like Type IIn events and a few Type IIP events (e.g. SN 2004et) are supposed to be strong sources of radio emission (for review see @weiler02). However, both VLA observations produced null results for this proximate event.

In this paper we present optical and near-infrared photometric and optical spectroscopic observations of . The photometric data cover a time span of about 410 days since the discovery. The [*Swift*]{}/XRT [@burrows05] and [*Swift*]{}/UVOT [@roming05] data covering a time span of 60 days are also presented. In Sections \[res:broadband\] and \[res:spec\] we study the the photometric and spectroscopic evolutions respectively. In Sections \[res:DistExt\] 