NMCH doctor missing case: Bollywood actor Shekhar Suman demands CBI probe

Patna: The ongoing investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) doctor has entered the fourth week of March but has yet to produce significant results. On Wednesday, Bollywood actor Shekhar Suman, the relative of the missing doctor, demanded a CBI inquiry immediately.

Suman arrived in Patna and met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav. He appealed to them to trace his brother-in-law, who has been missing for the last 22 days and the Patna police are clueless about it. 

"I came here to Patna as a family member to urge the chief minister, deputy chief minister and DGP to trace my brother-in-law. He has been missing since March 1 and the Patna police are unable to trace him. Hence, I have also demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter," Suman said.

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"My sister Saloni and Sanjay are financially sound people. They do not have any problems on the financial front. Everything is going smoothly in their life. He is missing for the last 22 days and we have not received any extortion call also," he said.

"The last time he spoke to Saloni was on March 1. He informed me that he was going to Muzaffarpur as an examination controller. Instead of going in his official car, he went in his own car and did not reveal it to Saloni. His car was found parked on Gandhi Setu. He was seen getting out of the car and traveling some 500 meters and then disappearing. The district administration has used divers to search the Ganga river for his body in case he had jumped from Gandhi Setu to commit suicide but his body has not been found. In case of kidnapping, the kidnappers generally contact the family members with a ransom demand. As no one has called, it does not seem to be a case of kidnapping," Suman said.

"I have great faith in the Bihar police, CM Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav. I have urged them to trace my brother-in-law," Suman added.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about the incident where a prominent doctor associated with the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) Patna went missing and his family members suspected he had been kidnapped, but no ransom call was received.

Following this, Patna police announced a reward of Rs 2 lakh to those who give a tip-off or any information about his location. Moreover, the state chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) was mulling a CBI probe if the police fail to recover the missing doctor.

The missing doctor, the Head of Department (HOD) of the Pharmacology Department of Nalanda Medical College (NMCH), informed his wife, an English professor in a degree college, that he was going to Muzaffarpur for some work. She had contacted him over the phone and he said that his car was stuck in a traffic jam on the Gandhi Setu. After that call, she tried to contact him several times, but he was not picking up his phone.

During the investigation, his car was found abandoned on Gandhi Setu and his two mobile phones was also inside. When a police team scanned the CCTV cameras on Gandhi Setu, he was found walking towards Hajipur. In another CCTV camera, he was seen driving a car on March 4.

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