Body of mysteriously missing director of Navneet Publication found in a remote North Gujarat village

Gandhinagar/Modasa: The badly decomposed body of the mysteriously missing Director of Navneet Publication Navin Shah (aged around 60) has been found in a village under Malpur police station of Arvalli district in North Gujarat.

He had reportedly gone missing at around 12 pm in the noon of July 25 while he had made his driver stop his car to go to Gorbandh restaurant close to Vaishnodevi circle while on way to his printing press in Dantali close to Gandhinagar from his residence in Ahmedabad. His Driver Prabhat Desai has filed a complaint in this regard in Adalaj police station the next day.

DySP Aravalli K F Baloliya today said that his decomposed body was found from a roadside water channel on the outskirts of Gajan village on the information of the village Sarpanch Khadabhai Chamar last night. ”It was not identified immediately. But on information to all the police stations as a routine matter, the Adalaj police station which falls in the same range as ours, showed the pictures of the body to his family members who identified it. It seems that he was murdered some where and the body was thrown in Gajan,’ he said.

The driver has in his complaint had claimed that he had asked him to wait for some time in the parking but he never returned. He had earlier talked to someone over phone.

Meanwhile, it is being said that some one had asked for ransom of Rs 5 crore for his release. The crime branch of Ahmedabad police is likely to make a formal briefing on the matter soon. Police has not ruled out of this being a case of kidnapping and murder with involvement of some close ones.

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