The joint team of Dehradun and Udham Singh Nagar police are still in the dark about the mystery of four persons, including a six- year- old boy, having gone missing on their way to Pithoragarh from Dehradun in a car on November 27. However, the body of the boy was found amidst bushes in (SIDCUl) Sitarganj on November 29. The body was handed over to the family members on Thursday evening. The deceased’s parent had registered a complaint in Sitarganj police station and a case under sections 364/302/201 of IPC was registered against unidentified persons.
local residents had informed the police about a body lying in the bushes, leading to its recovery by Sitarganj police. The body was kept for identification in mortuary after the autopsy was done. Deceased’s family member identified the body on Wednesday. The postmortem report revealed that deceased had got severe internal injury and later, wild animals had eaten some parts of the body, said Sitarganj police station in-charge inspector CS Bisht while talking to The Pioneer. He said that he had formed a team to search other three persons, including the driver.
A Premnagar police station official said that in the written report, Deepak Joshi, an army personal deputed at Orissa and resident of Shyampur, Premnagar, had stated that his mother Kamla Joshi, brother Rajendra Joshi and Rajendra’s son Bhaskar Joshi had left home for Pithoragarh in a car at1.30 pm on November 27. His cousin Pawan Joshi had called him up on November 28 and given him mobile number of a person with the direction to talk to him. The person thus contacted had informed him that his mother’s identity card and the car had been found in Vilaspur, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. Vilaspur Police Station in-charge had also informed him about the same at 3.30 pm on November 28.
Dehradun SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that he had formed three teams to crack the case. One of the teams had been sent to Sitarganj along with family member to recover and identify the body. Others are to review CCTV camera footages, installed at various places in Dehradun, Haridwar and some other places.