No trace of missing UT engineer after 2 days

Police investigations have revealed that Gupta had also left his home over some family dispute in the past but at that time,he had returned back after some days. However,Gupta’s elder son Raghav denied this and claimed that they were leading a happy family life.

On the statement of Gupta’s wife Rashmi,Ropar police have lodged a missing report. “In his statement,Rashmi has told us that her husband was under depression for the past couple of months but no cause thereof has been revealed,” divulged Ropar City SHO Sanjeev Bhatt.

Raising doubts over the police theory,Rashmi accused the police of “trying to close the case as that of a suicide”. Expressing confidence that her husband could not commit suicide,Rashmi said,“The police are probing the case from only the suicide angle as I had told them he was feeling low.”

She also apprehended that Gupta could also be kidnapped as he had recently been promoted. “When no body has been recovered so far,how can they conclude that it was a suicide?” she questioned,while seeking a thorough probe into the case.

Raghav said that his father had left home at around 6.30 am for his usual morning walk. He used to take the walk at Sukhna lake with his friends living in Sector 7,Chandigarh. While his friends did not go for the walk on Sunday,Gupta left his mobile phone at home. It was at around 10.15 am that the Gupta family in Panchkula got a call from the Ropar SHO informing that his car had been found abandoned there. “When we reached Ropar,the police handed over us the car. Nothing else was found in the car,” Raghav informed,while accusing the cops of not carrying out any forensic examination of the car.

Rashmi works as Associate Professor at DAV College,Sector 10,Chandigarh,while Raghav works with Indian Oil Corporation as an engineer and younger son Vaibhav studies in first year at University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET).