Tuesday marks one month since 11-year-old Vishwa went missing from a wedding in her society. Anandnagar police promptly got onto the matter but failed to make any breakthrough in the case. City detection of crime branch (DCB) then took over the matter and assigned eight police inspectors the task to look for the missing girl. Squads were sent to every district of the state and even Mumbai, but Vishwa is still missing.
"We are investigating every angle of this case but are yet to make any headway. Eight PSIs under DCB are looking for missing Vishwa," said Himanshu Shukla, DCP - DCB.
The eight PIs - Jitendra Yadav, JD Purohit, RR Sarvaiya, Bharat Patel, Paresh Solanki, KK Patel, KR Patel and DD Damor - have 180 police personnel under them in this assignment.
The DCB has devised a system where each of the eight PIs has been assigned three or four districts of the state to investigate about Vishwa. The PI covering a particular district has to assure that posters of Vishwa are pasted at every railway station, bus stations and other public areas of the city. Local police officials have to assure that this work is done and have to report daily to the concerned DCB inspector about any development that may have taken place.
Crime branch is not ruling out an insider's hand in Vishwa's disappearance. Cops have already interrogated her friends, relatives and neighbours to get some clue of her whereabouts. Vishwa's parents and their respective families are also under DCB scrutiny. Cops are not ruling out a feud between the couple as a reason for the 11-year-old's disappearance. Vishwa's school principal, her classmates and even her school-van driver have been covered under the DCB's investigation. They are also probing a human-trafficking angle to the case. Active gangs in UP, MP, Bihar and Jharkhand are under city DCB's radar. Cops are also gathering CCTV footage from hotels and malls to trace Vishwa.
Every investigation in the case by the crime branch has come to a cropper. Earlier, the case was taken from the Anandnagar police due to its failure in the matter. However, even DCB does not seem to fare any better.
