Bangalore, July 31 (IBNS): Two days after he went missing, the decomposed body of popular coffee shop chain brand Cafe Coffee Day's founder VG Siddhartha was recovered from the banks of the Netravathi River in Karnataka’s Mangaluru area on Wednesday, police said.
He went missing on Monday.
“Around 6am today we found a body in the Hoige Bazaar area and we are trying to confirm if it is Siddhartha. We have informed his family and we have also sent the body to Wenlock Hospital to complete formalities. Our investigation will continue,” Mangaluru’s commissioner of police Sandeep Patil was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
A massive team of 100 firefighters, 100 policemen, 50 divers, 50 fishermen and 30 boats earlier conducted a search operation find the businessman.
VG Siddhartha was the son-in-law of BJP leader SM Krishna.
According to The News Minute report, a fisherman named Ritesh on a trawler boat found the body when he cast his net into the waters. Since the police had informed fishermen to keep an eye out, Ritesh suspected that the body could have been Siddhartha's and immediately informed a local resident (Ashwath), who subsequently intimidated the local corporator Diwakar Pandeshwar and then the trio informed the local police.
Siddharth's body has been sent to hospital for post-motem.
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