Cops on wild goose chase for PI’s missing wife, no leads yet

Vadodara: The cops’ decision to seek help from the public in tracing the missing wife of a police inspector isn’t yielding desired results. Though many good Samaritans are coming forward to help, the inputs provided by them are leading the police nowhere.
Sweety, wife of police inspector Ajay Desai, has been missing for the last 37 days. Her mysterious disappearance has baffled the cops as the investigations haven’t revealed any foul play. Few days back police distributed look out notices with Sweety’s photograph and other details at public places.
The cops are getting calls from citizens who believe they have information about Sweety but the leads are resulting in cops being sent on wild goose chase. “We keep getting tip-offs from people across the state. Some even claimed to have seen her. But when we investigate their claims, it turns out to be false,” said Kalpesh Solanki, deputy superintendent of police (DySP) rural.
One of the first calls that the cops got was from Anand where the caller said that he had seen Sweety.
“Then a person from Ahmedabad made the same claims. We got a call even from Mt Abu in Rajasthan as well as Modhera. On cross verification the claims turned out to be false,” Solanki, who is heading the investigations, told TOI.
Three days ago, a man from Patan claimed to have given lift to Sweety. He also informed the cops that an older man was accompanying her. “We sent our team to Patan to verify his claims. He had mistaken some other woman for Sweety,” Solanki added.
Sweety had gone missing from her home in Karjan on June 5. Though Sweety’s brother had approached the cops a day after she went missing, the police began serious investigations in the case only six days ago.