An unfortunate incident has shattered a family of Jaleswar after it found a handwritten letter of a missing member urging them not to search him.
Uttam Kumar Panda (35) of Sorisa village was working as a lab assistant in a Haryana-based medicine company. He had come on leave on Friday to his home. However, he on Sunday afternoon went out stating he was going to withdraw cash from a nearby ATM kiosk.
When he didn’t return till 8 in evening, his family members made calls to his phones which went unanswered. The worried family members later found a handwritten letter by Uttam for his wife on his bed. In the letter he mentioned that he was suffering from an incurable disease and won’t recover since it was in an advanced stage.
He wrote that the money he had could be spent for education of his daughter instead of futile spending on his treatment. Panda has a one year old daughter besides his wife and father and mother.
Although the father of the missing lodged a complaint with the local police outpost at Nampo yet he couldn’t be traced till date. The financial condition of Uttam was not sound and his father eked out a living by performing house –to- house puja rituals. Although he had not disclosed any of his family members about his ailments, yet he reportedly said to one of his friends that he was suffering from cancer.
The police after registering a missing case have launched a search for him at various places by circulating his photographs.