4 days after disappearance from Ludhiana hostel, BDS student’s body found in canal

Four days after a Rajasthan-origin second-year student of BDS at CMC Medical College went missing under mysterious circumstances, his body was found floating in the canal near a petrol filling station in the South City area.

Parents of the deceased, Anugreh Marker (21), suspect foul play behind his death and  have sought a probe into the sequence of events leading to recovery of his body from a canal situated a large distance from the College Hostel.

Sarabha Nagar SHO Aditya Sharma said personnel at Division Number 3 Police Station are investigating the case as a report regarding disappearance of the victim had already been submitted by the deceased's father, Shailesh Marker.

Investigating Officer Navin Kumar assured the aggrieved family of strict action against those responsible for the student's death. He said further action would be initiated on the basis of circumstantial evidence and postmortem report of the body that was conducted by a board of doctors at Civil Hospital Ludhiana.

“It will be premature to say anything as we have to study postmortem reports and circumstantial evidence,” said Navin Kumar, while interacting with the media at Civil Hospital, Ludhiana.

The Rajasthan family had received information about the mysterious disappearance of Marker on receiving a call from his college hostel staff on Saturday evening. The caller had informed that Marker had been missing from the hostel for three hours. He was last seen near a church around 8 pm on the fateful day.

Shailesh informed the police that his son had spoken to him on phone on Friday and there was nothing unusual about the conversation.