Indian doc found dead in Michigan

WASHINGTON:A32-year-oldIndianAmerican doctor was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a car in the US state of Michigan.

Ramesh Kumar, who worked in the Urology Department of the Henry Ford Hospital, was found dead on the passenger seat of a car in a rest area, 90 miles out of Detroit, on late Thursday.

Police are probing the case to ascertain the cause of his death.

The family members of Kumar say they do not suspect anyone and have ruled out the possibility of it being an incident of hate crime.

“We do not know (the reason for his murder). They (The police) are yet to find out,” his father Narendra Kumar, a former president of the influential American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), told PTI.

“We do not suspect anything. We do not think, it was a hate crime,” said a shocked Kumar.

Ramesh was a medical graduate from the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi.

When he did not show up for his work, a hospital doctor called his father to enquire about him.

“This was quite unusual,” the father said.

He said he made phone calls and sent text messages to his son, but there was no response. The father went to his son’s apartment and called the police when he did not find him there.

After hours of search, police found the body of Ramesh in the passenger seat of a car at a rest area.