By IANS
Mumbai : A senior executive of pharmaceutical major Nicholas Piramal India Limited has gone missing in Madhya Pradesh. Police launched a search Saturday.
According to company sources in Mumbai, Ashwani Kumar Bhatt had left Indore to attend a conference in Gwalior Friday. He was expected to return to his home here Saturday, but he did not.
Despite repeated attempts by his family and top company officials to contact him, his as well as his driver’s cell phones remained switched off, the sources said.
Fearing that he could have been kidnapped, Bhatt’s family lodged a complaint with the Indore police.
Indore Superintendent of Police Anshuman Yadav told IANS over phone that while it was too early to say if Bhatt had been kidnapped, police were on the lookout for him.
Yadav said that the executive’s vehicle was found abandoned in Dholpur district of Rajasthan bordering Madhya Pradesh.
Yadav said that there were no leads on the whereabouts of Bhatt and his driver till Saturday evening.
Bhatt is in charge of the company’s plans all over India.