40-year-old man missing with 4-year-old son since Saturday Sushma Mittal is still trying to come to terms with the alleged abduction of her 40-year-old husband Vinod and 4-year-old son Yashan. She last saw her financier husband take Yashan in his Santro (CH04A 5012) from their Sector 16 residence to meet business partner Raju,a resident of Baltana in Mohali district. Both the Mohali and Panchkula police,meanwhile,are busy passing the buck on each other,claiming that the case does not fall under their jurisdiction. Vinod said Raju had to return Rs 5 lakh to him as part of a financial transaction and hence he was going to Baltana to collect the money. He had met Raju around six months ago. They had hit off immediately and Raju would visit our house almost daily, Sushma said. As Yashan,a nursery student of Woodland School in Sector 8,started crying as Vinod prepared to leave,he took the boy along,she added. Raju,his wife Shilpa and their one-year-old daughter have also been missing since Saturday and their house and salon are locked, said Sushma. At 10.30 pm (Saturday),I called Vinod on his cell (9781019999) and heard him crying for help. The call then got disconnected. There was no response from the number till 11.55 pm after which the phone was switched off, she added. Soon after,she rushed to Rajus house in Baltana. There,Shilpa told me that Raju had not come home since morning. I asked an acquaintance to keep a watch on her movements as I went to the Mohali police to lodge a complaint. In the morning,as soon as my acquaintance left Rajus house,she fled along with her daughter, Sushma said. At first,the Mohali police refused to lodge a complaint. Later,the Panchkula and Mohali police took at least 15 hours to lodge a Daily Diary Report (DDR). We kept shuttling between the two towns. The Panchkula police asked us to get the complaint lodged in Mohali while the Mohali police passed the buck on the Panchkula police, said Vijay Gupta,brother-in-law of Vinod Mittal. Talking to Newsline,Panchkula Superintendent of Police Sandeep Khirwar said: A case has been registered in the matter and we will investigate where the actual crime took place. Though the jurisdiction of the case is still not decided,the priority is to investigate the case. The probe till now* According to sources in the Mohali police,a team has been sent to Rajus native place Ganganagar in Rajasthan,Hisar and other suspected hideouts.* Rajus landlord,who runs an electronics shop in Baltana,claimed that he had purchased goods worth Rs 1.5 lakh from him and the payment was still due. He added that Raju had not paid the rent of the shop from where he had been running his salon for the last two months.* According to the family members of Vinod,Rajus friends said he was in Ganganagar in Rajasthan when they last spoke to him on Sunday.* The last call made by Vinod was on the mobile phone of one Suresh Kumar who claimed that he had to pay some money to Vinod,regarding which he had called him.
