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Cops grill Siddhartha’s car driver at undisclosed location

coastaldigest.com web desk
July 30, 2019

Mangaluru, Jul 30: A team of policemen is reportedly interrogating the Cafe Coffee Day founder V G Siddhartha’s car driver, according to whom the former went missing after asking the latter to park their car on Netravati Bridge on the outskirts of Mangaluru last night.

Amidst continued search operation in Netravati river near the bridge, the cops took driver Basavaraj Patil into custody for questioning and took him to an undisclosed place.

According to the complaint filed by the driver, Siddhartha left Bengaluru at 12.30pm to Sakleshpur. "When we reached Sakleshpur, he told me to drive to Mangaluru. When we reached the Pumpwell Circle in Mangaluru, he told me to take a left turn as he wanted to visit his site. Just before the bridge, he told me to stop the car and wait towards the other end of the bridge," the driver stated in the complaint.

After the car left, Siddhartha walked towards the other end of the bridge and told the driver to be seated in the car and also told him that he would return in some time. "I saw Siddartha walking on the old bridge for some distance," he said.

When Siddartha did not return at 8 pm, the driver called him only to find Siddaratha's phone switched off. He called his number again but it was switched off. "At 9 pm, I called Siddharath's son Amartya Hegde and informed him about what happened. He tried calling his father and later alerted our company's Pradeep Shetty, who is in Mangaluru," the complaint states.

The complaint was registered at 12.30 am on Tuesday at Kankanady police station in Mangaluru. Siddharth wore a black t-shirt and jeans pants at the time of missing.

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