Man goes missing days after daughter's disappearance in UP's Gorakhpur village; Search on
Gorakhpur (UP) (PTI): A man whose three-year-old girl went missing three days ago from the Pipraich area, also has now disappeared, police said on Tuesday.
The child, Nitya, went missing around 6:30 pm Saturday from her maternal grandparents' house in Ambedkar Nagar ward number 4 of Pipraich.
There has been no trace of her despite searches.
On Sunday, her father, Jogendra, too disappeared.
According to police, Jogendra, a labourer, was behaving suspiciously in the days following Nitya's disappearance, frequently distancing himself from the search operation on various pretexts.
He slipped away from police's watch on Sunday and has not been seen since.
"His sudden disappearance has raised serious doubts. We are now treating this as a dual missing case and all possibilities are being explored," Additional Superintendent of Police Jitendra Srivastava said.
Jogendra's wife Radhika and mother-in-law Geeta Devi claim they have no knowledge of his whereabouts.
Even villagers in his native place in Bolchaha, Padrauna (Kushinagar district), expressed ignorance when a police team led by Inspector Purushottam Anand Singh visited the area.
Six police teams have been deployed to look for the missing.
"We are hopeful of locating the child soon. No line of investigation is being ruled out," Srivastava said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
