Missing Case of a Goldsmith

A Goldsmith by name P C Jagannath who hails from Salem of Tamil Nadu was engaged in the business of manufacturing finished gold ornaments and selling them to customers in Udupi Town. On 15-05-2006 he came to Udupi in the same connection and engaged a room in Vyavahaar Lodge. He is said to have been in touch with his relatives in Tamil Nadu till 20-05-2006. As per the lodge owner, the goldsmith locked his room on the 20th and did not return till the next day ie., 21st. Therefore he called up the relatives of the goldsmith in TN and informed them of the issue. P. Gopi, the son of the goldsmith came to Udupi on the 24th of May and based on his complaint a missing case was registered under Cr. No. 155/06 under Udupi Town PS. The police who took up the investigation made local enquiries and learnt that the watchman of the said lodge had seen the goldsmith go on a bike along with one Vasantha Bhaktha , a gold merchant of Udyavara. This particular information was also confirmed by the statement of yet another witness who saw the two go towards Venkataramana temple the same evening.

The police immediately picked up Vasantha Bhaktha on 31st of May for questioning, but nothing substantial came out of the interrogation and was therefore let off. In a subsequent development, Vasantha Bhaktha along with his brother Ganesha Bhaktha absconded from their house the very next day leaving a suicide note. As there was no reason for them to abscond or even leave a suicide note, the police suspected some foul play in the missing case of the goldsmith P C Jagannath. However another missing case of the two brothers Vasantha and Ganesha Bhaktha were taken up on 01-06-2006 under Udupi Town PS Cr. No. 166/06 on the complaint of the mother of the two brothers. Since then Udupi town police have been on the look out for the three persons, and in one instance the two brothers Vasantha and Ganesha narrowly escaped from the police team in Bangalore which reached there to nab them. As of now both the brothers are still eluding the police and the whereabouts of P C Jaggannath are still not know. In case of any further information regarding the three missing persons S P Udupi may be contacted directly on the phone numbers given on the blog.