STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Making optimum use of technology, Special Investigation Team, led by Inspector Parvez Sajjad of Crime Branch wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday evening traced Advocate Raman Wazir outside PGI Chandigarh, ending six days mystery.
Advocate Raman Wazir, who is also National Conference Sarpanch of village Dhok Waziran in Nagrota appeared to be suffering from ‘psychological disorder’, as he failed in recognizing Inspector Parvez, who he knew personally. The team, along with the Advocate, has left for Jammu this evening.
Talking to STATE TIMES from Chandigarh, Inspector Parvez Sajjad said that since the Advocate had left his mobile phone, wallet and ATM cards in the vehicle, parked near Jagati, tracking had almost become impossible. However, after seeking Wazir’s e-mail ID from the family, the police kept tracking his mails. No sooner, he signed in his inbox on August 1 at 3.27 PM, the alert cyber wing of the police, at the behest of Inspector Parvez, traced the IP address of the computer used in up-market faishonable Sector-11 Chandigarh on August 3. The team immediately left for the Chandigarh but failed to locate the missing Advocate for two days.
“It was a chance encounter with Advocate Wazir when we came face to face outside the PGI Chandigarh”, Inspector Parvez said, adding that on seeing him, he called him by his surname but the Advocate refused to recognize him. Inspector Parvez, who has worked in Nagrota for quite a time, said, he and the Advocate were well known to each other. Keeping in view the condition of Adv Wazir, police did not subject him to questioning. However, they got to know that the Advocate had boarded bus for Chandigarh.
“Sensing that he was suffering from some psychological disorder, I escorted him to the waiting car and kept exchanging pleasantries in order to make him realize about the situation and circumstances in which he was in Chandigarh”, Inspector Parvez said.
Soon after disappearance of Adv Wazir from Dhok Waziran, the local MLA Nagrota Devender Singh Rana took up the matter with police high ups.
Advocate Wazir mysteriously went missing on July 31 while his private car (JK02N-9256) was found parked near Jagti area in Nagrota, generating suspicion about his abduction due to political and professional rivalry.
Concerned over his missing, Jammu Bar Association suspended court work and demanded inquiry. The BAJ also petitioned in the high Court on August 2 which ordered for constitution of Special Investigation Team (SIT) to solve the mystery.
The SIT headed by Shahzad Salaria, SP South comprised Amit Sharma (SDPO, Nagrota), Dalip Singh Billoweria, (SHO, Reasi), Parvez Sajjad (Inspector, Crime Branch), Arvind Rathore, Senior PO of High Court, and Kunal Singh, Sub-Inspector.
On July 31, Advocate Raman ‘s elder brother Rajinder Wazir had told police that Raman, before leaving home had brought vegetables from the market in the morning. The family members started looking for him when he did not respond to their repeated calls on mobile phone. Later the matter was reported to Nagrota police.
The Jammu Bar has been on strike since July 31. Today afternoon, the strike was extended till Monday.
The SIT worked hard to trace out Advocate Wazir. During the course of investigation, the team prepared scene sketch and scanned the CCTV footage of Adv Raman Wazir’s house besides recording of CCTVs installed at NHW Lakhanpur Toll Plaza upto Srinagar and towards Mughal Road Via Rajouri.
Details of history sheeters, goons and rowdies of the area was collected from the Police Station, Nagrota besides obtaining surveillance files and intelligence data in order to explore kidnapping angle as well. The Call Detail Record (CDR) of the mobile phone and i-Pad belonging to Raman Wazir, already collected, was minutely analysed alongside the Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts and emails to determine whether recent activity contains any clue which could be crucial to the case.
Bank/ATM details of the Advocate Raman Wazir were being collected in order to analyze recent financial transactions.
Besides, this information was also shared with National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), New Delhi.
