Kerala cop vanishes from hotel, found lying injured at rly station

CHANDIGARH: Finally, help has reached assistant sub-inspector of Kerala police Sanadhanan K, who went missing from a hotel room in Chandigarh under mysterious circumstances on June 30 and was found at the railway station on July 6.
A badly injured Sanadhanan, ASI of Kannur Armed Reserve Police (ARP) camp, was lucky to land in the hands of Kerala Samajam office-bearers here after he vanished from the hotel room last week.
Unnikrishnan, an office-bearer of Kerala Samajam, said when they met the cop at the railway station he was in a very bad shape and one of his fingers was fractured and there were several injury marks on his body. They were informed about the ASI lying at Chandigarh railway station by a Malayali friend.
The Samajam team took him to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, and provided him medicines, food and shelter at Ayyappa temple in Sector 47.
The 53-year-old ASI had arrived in Chandigarh on June 29 along with two of his colleagues to produce an undertrial drug peddler, Naresh Kumar Garg, before Naraingarh court in Haryana's Ambala district. Garg has been lodged in Kannur jail since 2011 in a drug case.
According to police, Sanadhanan, a resident of Azhikode in Kerala, disappeared from the hotel room on June 30 and his two colleagues filed a missing complaint in a local police station before returning to Kannur with the undertrial on July 3. His wife also filed a complaint in Kerala.
Inspector Vijender Singh Kataria of Railway Protection Force, Chandigarh railway station, said, "We received a communication from Kerala police that one of their personnel was lying at the railway station and he was traced and handed over to Kerala Samajam members."
Unnikrishnan said, "We brought him here and informed Kerala police about it. A team of Kerala police has arrived here to take him back." He will be boarding the flight back home on Tuesday, he added.
According to Kannur ARP deputy commandant V K Nisar, even though Sanadhanan had been located, the reason for him going missing remained a mystery. "He is in a state of shock and his statement has not been recorded," the deputy commandant said.
Kerala Samajam members said Sanadhanan was not in a mentally fit condition and he was not able to narrate his side of the story. Doctors at the medical college recommended psychiatric treatment for him.