Daijiworld Media Network - Moodbidri (SP)

Moodbidri, Nov 7: The decomposed body of Harish (30), working as labourer in a laterite stone quarry at Kanchibail within Puthige gram panchayat limits near here, was found from the same quarry on Monday November 6.

The police personnel of the town station, with whom a missing complaint had been filed, believe that Harish would have accidentally slipped and fallen to death when walking by the edge of the quarry, on account of pitch dark conditions. Harish, who had left his home on Friday evening, duly informing his wife that he would be back after visiting a grocery store for provisions, had not come back ever since.

On Saturday, he could not be found although searches were conducted. On Sunday evening, people went searching after a kind of stench rented the air. On Monday morning, people who went searching for the source of the bad smell, found the decomposed body of Harish inside the quarry.

Harish from Belman had married Sunanda from Kanchibail three years back and set up a small hut near the quarry. The couple has a two-years-old son.

Sunanda is illiterate. She did not know what to do after her husband went missing. It is learnt that she had not filed missing complaint with the police. Police inspector of the town station Ramachandra Nayak, and sub-inspector, Dejappa, visite dthespot and registered the case.