Missing man gives police sleepless nights

BANGALORE: The missing of a person, since January this year, is proving to be a headache for the police of two adjoining districts of Bangalore city.
The headache has since increased as there are rival contentions regarding the identity of a body traced in Nilgiri farm, Ittikondu village, Llakkur Hobli Malur Taluk, Kolar district. While , the petitioner, Shafi Ahamad , who has filed habeas corpus petition for producing his missing brother Irshad Ahmad (49 years) claims that the clothes found on that decomposed body was in fact worn by his brother, Irshad’s wife denied that.
As there is no confirmation and persisting confusion, a division bench headed by Justice K L Manjunath of the Karnataka high court has now directed the police for further investigating the issue. While the petitioner identified the clothes said to be worn by the dead person as that of his missing brother, the wife of the missing person denied that her husband had any such clothes. Irshad Ahmad , a businessman from Shimoga, is said to be missing since January 22, 2012 from Tiptur where he had gone to his mother in law's house.
The police, who were searching for him since the filing of a complaint in January, found a dead body at a farm in Malur of Kolar district. They informed the the petitioner Shafi Ahmed about that. A post mortem of the body was also conducted and the body was buried in a grave yard.
On November 11, Shafi Ahmed identified the photos of the dead body and claimed that it was in fact his missing brother. He also sought for exhumation of the body.