Mangalore: Two Persons Disappear in Connection With Missing Cash

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jul 8: Pranesh(35) from Bolara Mulihithlu in the city, who was working with the local office of Writers Safeguard Bangalore, which works on behalf of several banks to carry out the function of remitting cash into the local ATMs, has gone missing since Wednesday, July 2. His assistant named Harish Shetty(31) from Dharmastala, said to have been residing in the former's house as a paying guest, too has gone missing from the said date, without leaving any trace of his whereabouts.

It is reported, that the Writers Safeguard company had asked Pranesh to come to Bangalore for accounts reconcilliation in connection with a shortage of Rs 8.5 lakhs found by it in the cash credited into the ATMs of banks here. Pranesh and Harish took a bus to Bangalore on the night of July 2. In a complaint filed with the Pandeshwar police, Pranesh's wife Sheeja has said that they neither went to the company headquarters at Bangalore nor returned home.

In a letter purported to have been written by Pranesh and received by his wife here, he is reported to have said that it would be better to die to come out of all the problems, the Pandeshwar police said.

Pandeshwar police are investigating into the case. They will also examine the case from the angle of the possibility of the two having committed suicide.