Police grope in dark over missing persons from Kottayam

Kottayam: The missing of people from the district has become a headache for the police with no clues. In two separate incidents, two couples went missing from the nearby places.

The couple from Arupara, missing since April 6, and the other from Manganam since December 13, have left them dumbstruck. Hashim and Habeeba of Arupara near left home at 9 pm and went towards Kottayam town for buying food.

The police got not even a CCTV footage showing their Wagon R car's (KL5 AJ Temp) direction. Though the local police started the investigation the next day and the Crime Branch on December 29, they remain clueless. The only doubt is that they might have driven the car into some water bodies in a suicide bid.

"Our search was centred on water bodies in Kottayam. We will expand it to other water bodies in the district," DYSP Xavier Sebastian, who is in charge of the investigation, told DC. The missing of retired KSEB assistant executive engineer Puthukkat P.C. Abraham and his wife on the night of November 11 also baffles them.

Though the police got the CCTV footages of them couple driving an Activa to the railway station, they could not move on. The only assumption is that they caught a train to an unknown destination.

Again on March 22, a second year B. Com student Jesna Mariya James went missing after she went to her aunt's house at Mukkoottuthara. The police had constituted a special squad, but here too they have no clues.