Gujarat: Probe handed over to anti-terrorism squad, crime branch

VADODARA: The state home department on Sunday transferred investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Vadodara special operation group (SOG) cop’s wife to Ahmedabad crime branch and the anti-terrorism squad (ATS).
The Vadodara rural police have failed to make any headway in tracing 37-year-old Sweety, wife of SOG inspector Ajay Desai, who is missing for the last 44 days.
Junior home minister Pradipsinh Jadeja, who was the city on Sunday, said that the investigation will be done swiftly and in a fair manner using technical and forensic help
The transfer of probe has come as a major embarassment for the Vadodara rural cops who groping in the dark since June 6 when when Sweety’s brother filed a missing persons complaint at Karjan police. The case was not taken serious and there were were little efforts to trace her. It was only after a month that senior police officials handed over investigations to the deputy superintendent of police, rural.
Desai, and Sweety had been staying in Karjan. They got married in 2015 and have a two-year-old kid.
On June 5, Desai called up Sweety’s brother and told him that she had left their house. Her brother rushed to Karjan and after searching for her, he approached the police.
The cops have conducted a polygraph test of Desai and preparations are on to go for narco test too.
Police said investigation now relies on the burnt bones that were found from an unused property in Dahej some days ago. The bones that are of a human have been sent for further FSL tests to ascertain if they are of a woman. The investigators claimed that the property where the bones were found is of a man who is allegedly known to Desai.
What has baffled the cops is that while Desai claimed that his wife left their home in Karjan on June 5, there is no evidence of her having left the residence. The CCTV footage in her residential locality doesn’t show her leaving their house.
“Her phone call details also don’t reveal much as she wasn’t in touch with someone in particular,” said a police official.