Suhail Rather
Bandipora, May 20 : The Body of a missing government teacher was recovered on Monday from Laharwapora Gath near Wullar Lake in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
Reports said that the dead body was spotted by locals at Laharwalpora gath near Wullar lake and locals immediately informed police about it.
Reports added after getting information about it police team reached the spot, and along with locals retrieved the dead body from the area.
The family members of deceased person said that the day Mushtaq went missing, his phone was found switched off at around 07 pm, hours after he left home for duty to Govt Hr Sec School Chuntimulla and has not returned home.
“After we failed to trace him, we logged a missing report in police station Pathkoot,” Mushtaq's family members said.
The family members said that the deceased left his home at about 8 PM on 13 May for school located at chuntimullah where he is posted as a teacher in Government Higher Secondary School. "When he didn’t return home by the evening, we made phone calls to every relative, friends and colleagues to seek his whereabouts but couldn’t locate him said his family members".
They said that according to the headmaster of the school they were together till they reached Bandipora main market on May 13 but when they called their deceased colleague and by evening his phone was switched off.
After family failed to locate him, they filed a missing report at police station Bandipora.
A police officer also confirmed the incident and identified The deceased Mushtaq Ahamad lone (29) son of Abdul Rahma Lone, a resident of Sheikhpora mantrigam in Bandipora district.
“A case under relevant sections of law has been registered and further investigations initiated in this regard, the officer said.
The body has been shifted to DH Bandipora for postmortem.
