Bodies of 2 Mumbai tourists found frozen in Chamoli

DEHRADUN: Two tourists — 50-year-old

Sanjeev Gupta

, and 35-year-old Sinsha Gupta — were found dead in the snow-covered Gorson Bugyal meadow near Auli in Chamoli district of Garhwal on Saturday. Both are believed to have frozen to death — their bodies are believed to have been lying there for the past few days. It wasn’t clear if they had lost their way and ended up in the meadow where temperatures are sub-zero currently.


Police officials said the bodies were identified on the basis of airline tickets found in their pockets. “Prima facie, it appears that they were from Mumbai as they took a flight from there. It is yet to be established how long the bodies were lying there and the relationship between the two,” said Chamoli SP Shweta Choubey.

Based on the information available, both boarded a Mumbai-Dehradun flight on December 8 and stayed in Haridwar till December 12 before leaving for Joshimath. “After reaching

Joshimath

, they checked into a guest house. They travelled to Auli by ropeway the next day and were supposed to return on December 15,” Choubey said.

Vinod Rawat, a police official at Chamoli, said, “Ee were unable to contact their families. Through the call detail record, we found that Sanjeev Gupta was a cameraman in a private news channel”. Choubey said “an Aadhaar card was found which mentioned an address in Mumbai.We contacted police there but it turned out to be an old address,” Choubey said.

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