Man missing since 2009,CBI starts probe

The CBI officials have met the victim’s family and also visited Bareilly to take the documents related to the case from Bareilly police. Puskar’s father PNL Das was a joint director in UP Education Department. He died in 2001.

A resident of Lucknow’s Naka Hindola locality,Puskar had gone to Bareilly to open a coaching institute. He last contacted his mother,Leela Das,a retired government official,on November 4,2006. When Puskar did not contact his family for long,his mother lodged a complaint about his disappearance with the Naka Hindola police in December,2009.

Later,the case was transferred to Bareilly for investigation when it was found that Puskar went missing from Bareilly.

During investigation the police found that Puskar was staying at a rented accommodation in Rajendra Nagar locality under Prem Nagar police circle in Bareilly. The police also found that money from Puskar’s bank account had been withdrawn on fake signatures.

The police later registered a case against Puskar’s landlord R K Jain,his son Sumit Jain and his girlfriend Anjali Pandey on various charges,including kidnapping and forgery.

The Bareilly police said all three are out on bail and the chargesheet against them have been filed.

However,even after arresting the three accused,the Bareilly police failed to trace Puskar. Puskar’s family members then contacted senior police officers in Lucknow. In 2010,the government transferred the investigation to UP’s Crime Branch CID.

Recently,the family approached the state government requesting for a CBI investigation. Puskar had done his M.Tech from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi in 1997-98 and had worked with National Thermal Power Corporation for five years. He was posted in Noida.

According to his mother Leela Das,Puskar left his job in 2005 to open a coaching institute. He first went to Allahabad and stayed there for a few months and later shifted to Bareilly in 2006.

“Initially I did not take it seriously when Puskar did not contact me. He had promised to return home only after his coaching institute started running successfully,” she said.