Before leaving home in South Moti Bagh on July 29, Srikant Singh told his family he would be back in an hour. He did not keep his word, and 10 days later all that the family has is a video that police say shows his decapitated body, but which the 26-year-old’s young wife insists is not of her husband.
The headless body that police say belonged to Srikant was found in Kasola village of Rewari in Haryana on July 30. The local police cremated it three days later, after failing to identify it.
“The head of the deceased has not been recovered yet. The motive of the killer was to hide Singh’s identity. We have positive leads and the case will be worked out soon,” said Chhaya Sharma, DCP (South). Srikant’s i-10 car too remains untraced.
Srikant’s father Shishpal Singh said his son left home around 12.30 pm on July 29 in a hurry after he got a call from a former colleague, Sanjay Bhattacharya. “Srikant did not even change. Bhattacharya had asked him to come to his office in Saket. I spoke to my son at 4.45 pm, but found his phone switched off when I called fifteen minutes later,” Singh said.
According to the father, the last call from Srikant’s phone was made from Greater Noida. At 8 am the next day, with still no word from his son, Singh went to the police.
Lata, Srikant’s 24-year-old wife of six months, refuses to believe that her husband is no more. Clad in a red salwar-kameez, with vermillion on her forehead and with her bangles intact, she said the body the police cremated did not belong to her husband.
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