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Police still groping in the dark
COPS OF four districts, including the state capital, and the special task force (STF) are groping in the dark to trace city?s leading businessman and secretary of the Cricket Association of Lucknow (CAL) Khaliq Mukhtar Khan.
COPS OF four districts, including the state capital, and the special task force (STF) are groping in the dark to trace city’s leading businessman and secretary of the Cricket Association of Lucknow (CAL) Khaliq Mukhtar Khan.
The cops are yet to establish if Khan has been kidnapped for ransom or there is some other motive behind his mysterious disappearance.
On the other hand, the STF officials are searching for clues after collecting details of a cellphone number of one of the two persons who had met Khan posing as engineers of NTPC. Besides, a police team from the GRP Lucknow have also been dispatched to Varanasi.
Meanwhile, the Home Department said directives had been issued to the GRP and concerned districts to trace the businessman. However, the spokesperson revealed that the victim’s family members were not very forthcoming.
Khan’s son Mishel said his father had left home for Sonbhadra on December 28 to visit two youths who had met him posing as NTPC engineers. The visiting cards left by two alleged engineers were also found to be forged as the address on the cards did not exist in Shakti Nagar, Sonebhadra. He, however, went missing since and his brother Arif Ali had lodged an FIR with GRP, Lucknow on December 31.
Mishel further said his father had received extortion threats five years back but the matter was resolved then. Some criminals had threatened to kidnap Khan’s son for Rs 5 lakh. But, later it was revealed that an employee of Khan’s workshop had issued threats. He was expelled.
The family members had raised doubts on this employee who was bailed out from jail recently.
The cops at GRP station claimed that primary investigation revealed that Khan was last seen at Varanasi railway station indicating that he disappeared from there only.
