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The way cases of missing persons are investigated by the police leaves a lot to be desired, writes Marri Ramu There is little anybody can do if a person runs away from home avoiding his or her family members. Police try to take shelter under this argument whenever the issue of a large number of missing persons being untraced is critically reviewed. But two cases of missing persons — one in S.R. Nagar of Hyderabad and another in Rajendranagar of Cyberabad — prove that the police should not take a lenient view of such complaints. Even an iota of indifference might sometimes result in loss of precious lives. Inter-caste marriageV.R. Geetha of Borabanda secretly married Sangameshwar living next door after falling in love with him. The couple was living separately when Sangameshwar suddenly disappeared in July 2007. Geetha approached the S.R. Nagar police. Like hundreds of other missing cases, this too remained unsolved. Seven months later, the Commissioner’s Task Force sleuths found that Geetha’s brother Venkateswar Reddy, who was annoyed that his sister married outside their caste, got her husband murdered through hired assassins. How is it that S.R. Nagar police failed to trace missing Sangameshwar, but the Task Force officials found that he was murdered? Claims of the police that they questioned Reddy but couldn’t suspect his involvement are surprising. Analysing mobile phone call data of suspects has become routine. Then what did they find after verifying Reddy’s phone? Task Force sleuths confirm that Reddy spoke several times to the hired killers before and after executing the murder. Another case in point is of a rag picker V. Nagaraju, 19, whose family members complained to the Rajendranagar police on February 28 stating he went missing nine days ago. The police told them that Nagaraju was caught by some locals on charge of committing theft in Shastripuram on February 19 but let him off the same day as they found no evidence. Interestingly, Nagaraju was found lying unconscious on February 20 at a local bus-stop. Police shifted him to hospital where he died the next day. Irony is the police could not identify that the same missing person they were searching were found dead in their police station area eight days ago. If the police examined Nagaraju and let him off, how they failed that he is the same person found lying unconscious at the bus-stop? Such unanswered questions about the two cases leave a lot to be desired the way police are investigating into cases of missing persons.
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