NASHIK: The skeletal remains of a 31-year-old driver from Pune, missing for more than a year, were found on Saturday inside a car which had fallen into a well along the Panchale-Pangri Road in Sinnar taluka. The driver has been identified as Sanjay Ahire, a native of Ravalgaon.
A farmer in Sinnar was lifting water from his unused well when he spotted the car that had fallen in. The Sinnar MIDC police reached there and got the car pulled out with a crane. Inspector Dashrath Chaudhary of the Sinnar MIDC police station said, “A human skeleton was found in the car. From the vehicle’s registration number and a laminated driving licence found in the car, we traced the owner to Indore. We learnt that the car owner’s son lives in Pune and the vehicle was with him.”
Chaudhary said that on November 20, 2019, the owner’s son had given the car to Ahire to take the vehicle back to his father in Indore. Ahire had left with the car the same night. Around midnight, he spoke to the owner’s son that he had reached Sangamner.
However, his phone was not reachable the next morning. Ahire’s wife later registered a complaint with the Wakad police station in Pune that her husband had gone missing.
Chaudhary said Ahire’s wife was called to the MIDC police station on Saturday evening to identify her husband’s clothes and other possessions. The skeletal remains were cremated in Sinnar itself.
Chaudhary said the left side front tyre of the car had burst, which apparently could have led to Ahire losing control and the car plunging into the roadside well.