MISSING HDFC BANK VP’S CAR FOUND WITH BLOOD STAINS

MUMBAI:POLICE teams fanned out in the city to trace HDFC Bank’s vice-president (V-P) Siddharth Sanghvi, 39, who has been missing since Wednesday from the Kamala Mills office.

The mystery deepened, when his car was found at Kopar Khairane in Navi Mumbai on Friday with blood stains on its seat. Police are yet to find concrete clues, they said.

Sanghvi, a resident of Malabar Hill, left work at Kamala Mills in Lower Parel at 7.30pm on Wednesday. When he did not reach home at his regular time, his family approached the police.

“The family thought he may have been late at work, but as time passed and they could not reach him, they filed a missing complaint,” said a police officer.

The CCTV footage showed him exit office and Sanghvi’s phone was switched off. The police got their first clue, when his phone was switched on for five minutes on Thursday. They traced the location to Koparkhairane, where his car was found. “The blood stains are on the rear seat of the car. The samples have been sent for forensic tests to ascertain if the [blood] stains are Sanghvi’s. The car is also being checked,” said a police officer.

The police have also stumbled upon few bloodstains in the parking lot at Kamala Mills, but they are yet to determine if they are Sanghvi’s.

A missing person’s complaint has been registered at the NM Joshi Marg police station.