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The police found the body of a youth floating in the swimming pool of a resort located in Lucknows Chinhat area on Friday morning. The body was identified as that of Anurag Srivastava,32,an unemployed man who had gone there along with friends. The police said that there were no injury marks on the body. The post mortem report is awaited.
Anurags parents have not registered any complaint against anyone so far. In their application,they did not suspect any foul play,said Chinhat police station n-charge Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
Gomti Nagar ASP Abdul Hamid said,We cannot rule out foul play. The picture will be clear once we manage to trace victims friend with whom he had gone to the resort. The police have summoned officials of the resort for questioning about how the body remained in the pool but was not spotted by the staff.
A resident of the Indira Nagar area,Anurag was the son of Nandji Srivastava,a retired government employee. According to the police,when Anurag did not reach home on Thursday evening,his father Nandji called on his cellphone. An employee of the resort received the call,taking the cellphone out of Anurags clothes,which were lying around.
He told him that the phone had been left by one of the youth who had come to the resort along with his friends in the afternoon. He added that the youths who had come with him were also searching for him but could not find him.
Hearing this,Nandji informed the police. Later,he went to the resort along with the police and during a search spotted Anurags body lying in the pool.
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