Sisters Sangita Jadhav and Asmita Yadav spent almost two years searching for their brother Deepak Zende, who had been missing since September 2011. Their search met a tragic end on Friday when they found Zende's photograph among the thousands of photographs displayed by the Pune police on the premises of the police headquarters in Shivajinagar.
The Pune police organized a display of as many as 2,227 photographs of unclaimed bodies and murder victims who remain undetected. Besides the sisters, four more people found their missing relatives were able to ascertain the identities of their relatives through the photographs at the display.
Relatives of the missing persons kept coming to the headquarters since morning and anxiously went through the photographs. One of them was 72-year-old Salima Siddiqui.
She had come to the police headquarters to look for her 40-year-old daughter, Nasreen Siddiqui, who is missing for the last two years. "I have checked the photographs displayed by the Pune police as well as those put up at police stations in other cities. But, I could not find her," Salima said. adding, "We are searching for her since she went missing."
Asmita Yadav said, she and her sister were tirelessly searching for their brother Deepak, who was missing since September 15, 2011.
"It is very painful for us is that we came to know that our brother is no more. That, too, on a day when we are performing rituals marking the completion of three months of our father's demise,after our father's death"she said.
Yadav said that while checking the photographs in the display all of sudden she noticed the picture of her brother. She further said, "I was shocked to see the picture of my brother at the display. We will not be able to even perform his last rites as his body has already been disposed of as it was unclaimed. We are now informing our relatives that Deepak is no more."
Rajendra Bhamare, assistant commissioner of police (crime), said as per the directives of the director general of police Sanjeev Dayal, the city police arranged the display of the photographs of persons found dead without any claimants for the bodies and undetected murders.
"Along with the city police, the photographs obtained from the Pune rural police, Ahmednagar police, Satara police and the government railway police were also display," Bhamare said.
He said the Pune police displayed 155 photographs, which included 126 people found dead and 29 photographs of undetected murders, which took place between 2008 and 2013.
The Pune rural police have sent 182 photographs; Satara police, 99 and the Ahmednagar police, 24 for the display. The government railway police have sent 1,767 photographs," Bhamare added.
He said the police received huge response from the people.Since morning the people have started visiting the display.
"We have asked all the police stations in the city to send their data of such persons for the display. Apart from that, we have also sent detailed information about the display to all the complainants, who have lodged the missing person's complaints with the police stations," Bhamare added.
Bhamare said he had maintained a register of such persons, when he was in charge of the social security cell. "We have also kept the register at the display," he added.
Bhamare said along with Deepak Zende (35), the identities of Rameshchandra Karva (50), Satish Pardeshi (40), Shivaji Pawar (60) and Ganpat Kamble (81) were also ascertained by their relatives. "We are expecting more people to visit the display on Saturday," Bhamare said. The display will be open on Saturday between 12 pm to 5 pm.
Saturday 29 June 2013
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