New Delhi: A senior executive of pharma major Nicholas Piramal remained untraceable for the fourth day on Monday while the Special Task Force (STF) joined police teams looking for leads in several cities in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan after he went missing.
Ashwini Bhat, President, Manufacturing of Nicholas Piramal, and his driver went missing on Friday, while they were on their way from Indore to Gwalior.
The STF has fanned out in the Gwalior Chambal region. There are fears that Bhatt may have been kidnapped though his family has not received any ransom call so far. His wife made a public plea for help.
Bhat's family members are fearing for his safety. His wife Basanti Bhat made an impassioned plea that her husband should be allowed to return home.
“"We have no enemies. We are salaried people. Wherever he is he should not be harmed," Basanti said.
Bhat’s wife and father of Ashwini Bhat made emotional appeals that he should not be harmed and suspected he may have fallen victim in a case of mistaken identity. The family has not received any ransom calls, police said.
"Teams have been dispatched to different cities, including Indore (where he resides) and Gwalior and neighbouring Rajasthan but no headway has been made yet," a senior police officer told PTI.
"We are working on different theories," he said, adding the Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force has joined the search.
Ashwini's father Prem Nath Bhat said, "He has reached this position after a lot of hard work. We don't have money. There has been a misunderstanding. He has been wrongly picked up. Please have mercy on us and on his children and spare him."
A police team, which had gone to Rajasthan's Dholpur district, found blood-stains in his abandoned car fuelling suspicion that the executive may have been abducted.
Police also found a pair of shoes and a newspaper in the car left near a bus stand in Nihalganj police station area in Dholpur.
(With PTI inputs)
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