At square one after 3 weeks, cops put award on head of Irfan killer

Three weeks after the missing person’s report was first filed, the police have not even been able to trace Irfan’s car. There has been no breakthrough in the case yet.

The man-hunt for Irfan began only a week after he went missing. Express Newsline investigations revealed that the police went around with a picture of Irfan eight days after he went missing. On March 16, policemen travelled the route Irfan would have taken to go home, showing his picture and asking panwallahs if they had seen the man.

Irfan was last seen on March 8 by Major Srinivasan at 10.15 p.m. He had run out of cigarettes and would have stopped on the way back to pick up a new pack. But it was only on March 16 that the city’s police force started their search for the shop where he might have stopped for a pack of cigarettes.

There are 26 shops that sell cigarettes along the route that Irfan probably took that night, from INA market to Mayur Vihar, from where he made the last call to his wife from his mobile phone.

The police also did not inform their counterparts in Ghaziabad, Bahadurgarh or Faridabad about the missing car. Hence, nobody was on the lookout for Irfan’s missing car. Further, the police decided to look for clues along the eight kilometer stretch on the Gazipur highway, where the body was eventually found, a couple of days after Irfan went missing.