SP worker,aide missing; family files complaint

Yadav,according to his elder brother Rajesh Yadav,had left for a meeting in Vasai on Saturday before noon and was to return at 2 pm. “We have two vehicles at home. He asked me to keep the bigger vehicle free as he had to leave with some people for a 2-pm meeting with some academicians.” On Saturday,he left in a Black Scorpio which was parked in front of the residence. “We do not know who the vehicle belonged to,except it has to be someone known to my brother. He just opened the door behind the driver’s seat and was followed by his assistant. There was a man in the front seat of vehicle apart from the driver,” he said.

The duo has four cellphones which remained switched off from 2 pm on Saturday. The family lodged a missing person’s complaint on Saturday midnight following which the Mumbai Police asked them to contact hospitals and railway mortuaries. “We have done everything that we can do. We have no enemies and there is no reason to suspect any foul play. Except we still feel that he cannot be so irresponsible since he has not communicated with us for so long. Now we are worried and feel the worse,” Rajesh says.The family has been informed by the police that the phones were last tracked at Vasai Phatak before they were switched off.

Yadav runs the family-owned Shripati Infrastructure Private Limited and is also the editor-in-chief of Pahal Jaihind Times,a local fortnightly. Meanwhile,enquiries by his family revealed that Yadav has been getting frequent calls from a person for the past ten days asking him to resolve a matrimonial dispute.

“For a few days,a man has been calling him urging him to resolve a matrimonial dispute. He politely declined as we do not take a stand or go for such problem-resolving sessions. Later,he was a little disturbed when the man started calling him up very frequently. Since every information counts,we have told this also to the police,” says chief editor of the paper Dinesh Varma.

Confirming the details,Senior Police Inspector M N Sankhe of the Kurar police station said,“We are treating it as a missing case. The probe is in progress. We cannot speak much at this stage.”