Air Force officer killed in Kolkata, number plate of speeding SUV missing

Kolkata: The number plate of the white SUV, which killed the on-duty Indian Air Force jawan during the practice of Republic Day parade on Red Road in front of Fort William early Wednesday, has been found missing.

The new development has increased suspicion among police officers probing the case on murder charge.

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Soon after the accident police commissioner Surajit Kar Purkayastha, special police commissioner Soumen Mitra, deputy commissioner of police (traffic) V Solomon Neskumar and deputy commissioner of police (combat force) Lt Col Nevendera Singh Paul visited the spot and inspected the white Audi.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the computer generated number which was temporarily issued to the owner of the car Ambia Sohrab, also the suspected accused, and was pasted as number plate on the car during the delivery on January 4 this year, was removed deliberately after the mishap.

The motive suggest that the accused who was driving the car wanted to destroy the evidence so that he could not be traced later, a senior police officer said.

But the officers of the detective department and traffic department of the Kolkata Police later discovered that the car was bought in the name of Mussadi Business Pvt Ltd in Jorasanko and found Ambia's name and email ID, sources disclosed.

The police found that Ambia has a fascination for expensive cars. Sources indicated that his fleet of cars including Lamborghini and Hummer.