Mines official missing from Orissa, his family in Delhi

“We have neither received any ransom call yet nor heard anything about his whereabouts. We have been going to the Orissa Police every day now, but are yet to hear anything from them. We met the Karnataka chief minister who sent a police team to Orissa, but the latter refused to help them,” said B Giddu, Shareif’s father.

The family has written to the home minister. They also met Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah in Delhi on Thursday. “We met him and he has assured us of help,” Giddu said.

Shareif’s elder brother Subhan said, “We belong to a modest background and do not have the money to sustain this search any more. Every time we travel from Karnataka to Orissa or Delhi, it is a drain on our resources.” When contacted, Bhubaneswar Police Commissioner Dr R P Sharma told The Indian Express that his team was trying to trace the official, but had had no success. “There have been no tangible leads so far. His mobile phone has been switched off since December 4 while the password of his Facebook account was changed on December 14 from a cyber cafe in Joshimath. Our team spoke to the cyber cafe owner, but he could not give any clue as to who had logged on,” he said. “His family did not specify any threat from the mining mafia.”
Sharma said he was personally monitoring the case on a day to day basis.