With each passing day, the disappearance of a youngster A. Naresh of Bhongir and his wife Swati’s suicide lead to new questions cropping up even as investigators maintain that they are doing everything to bring out facts.
A day after Swati’s selfie video surfaced in the media, Naresh’s elder sister’s video refuting allegations levelled by Swati in her video clip also reached TV channels on Friday. Statements made by the two are quite contradictory but, going by Ms. Swati’s selfie video, one surmises that ‘harassment by husband’ depressed her.
“Soon after the marriage, he started inquiring about the quantity of gold jewellery my father would give me,” she said in the video. While the video clip helps investigators understand the possible motive behind her suicide, it is baffling how the video reached the TV news channel, which aired it, and not the police.
“We heard about Swati’s selfie video. On the day of her suicide, we stumbled upon her suicide note. We’re yet to see her selfie video,” Rachakonda Commissionerate’s Bhongir DCP A. Yadagiri said as Telugu TV channels started telecasting it late on Thursday night.
Timing unclear
When did the victim record her selfie video? Was it shot minutes before she ended her life or some days before her death? If she used a mobile phone to record the video, why weren’t the investigators able to secure it on Tuesday when she committed suicide? How did the crucial evidence of video clip related to the case first reach the media and not the police?
While these questions are yet to be answered, investigation into Naresh’s disappearance hit a cul-de-sac. All that the police found out is that Naresh, along with Swati, came from Mumbai to Hyderabad on May 2. Swati’s father had taken her to his house in Lingarajupally.
Police confirm this but they are not clear about the exact place from where he had picked up his daughter. Naresh’s family members maintain that he had come to Bhongir bus-stand with his wife who had gone with her parents from there.
Police clueless
It is more than a fortnight since the youngster vanished but the police are completely clueless about him. In many missing cases, Rachakonda police succeeded in tracing the victims or the accused by tracking mobile phone signals, tower location and analysis of the call data record of mobile phones.
Naresh’s case posed a fresh challenge. The possibility of Naresh himself going into hiding was remote, say his family members. That naturally would lead to the question of who would benefit from his disappearance and if anyone had confined him or was trying to harm his life.
