Missing
NRI executive traced to Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata, June 3, 2005
A London-based IBM executive who went
missing from here was traced after two days in Uttar
Pradesh's Mughalsarai railway station Friday.
NRI Rajiv Bhattacharya, 31, was found at the station
in a dishevelled state, sources said here.
"He has been found alive at Mughalsarai,"
deputy commissioner of police (Eastern Suburban Division)
Javed Shamim said.
Bhattacharya had gone missing from a bank at Ultadanga
in north Kolkata Wednesday two days before his marriage.
A police team left Kolkata to bring back the missing
executive who called home Friday morning and said
he was being taken to a hospital because of some injuries
he had sustained.
It was not known immediately who had taken Bhattacharya
to Mughalsarai.
Bhattacharya's marriage was cancelled following his
disappearance. On Thursday, Bhattacharya's father
appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
to trace his son.
Police Thursday arrested the executive's driver and
a foreign currency dealer for questioning. Investigations
revealed that Bhattacharya had received an e-mail
asking him not to marry the woman he had been engaged
to. The bride Suparna, of Salt Lake in the city, told
police she had received an SMS warning against the
marriage.
A call was also received by the IBM office in Kolkata,
saying, "Rajiv is with us. We will call later."
Bhattacharya had gone to an HSBC Bank branch to withdraw
money. Following some problem with the ATM withdrawal
he had sent his driver to his Salt Lake residence
in the neighbourhood to fetch his chequebook. When
the driver reached the bank with the chequebook he
"found" the executive missing.
(IANS)
NRI
comes to marry, goes missing
KOLKATA, June 02, 2005
PTI
A senior global delivery manager with the IBM, who
arrived here from London for his wedding, has gone
missing mysteriously, police said on Wednesday
NRI,
Rajiv Bhattacharya, who had arrived on May 29 for
his wedding on June three, left his Salt Lake home
on Wednesday at around 10 am to go to a private bank
at Ultadanga nearby, police said.
Rajiv called up his father an hour later and asked
him to hand over a blank cheque to the family's driver
Gajendra Roy.
The driver told the police that he handed over the
cheque to Rajiv inside the bank and waited for him
outside. When he did not come out, he informed Rajiv's
father.
Roy has been detained, police added.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee
expressed concern at disappearence of the senior IBM
employee.
"This is a serious matter... I will talk to
the Police Commissioner about it," he told reporters
when asked about the IBM official's disappearance.
Earlier, Rajiv's father Saroj Bhattacharya handed
over a written complaint to the chief minister's personal
secretary and appealed for help to trace his son.
Asked whether he would order a CBI enquiry as was
done in the case of college student Roma Jhawar who
was kidnapped from Salt Lake on February four but
found 24 hours later, the chief minister said "I
have not yet read the written statement. Let me go
through it first."
