No trace of missing pigmy agent yet; search intensified


Team Udayavani, Jul 28, 2019, 11:38 AM IST

Puttur: A pigmy agent who has been missing since two days has not yet been traced. The missing agent is identified as Krishnappa Poojary (47), a resident of Nandini Nagar near Hirebandadi of Uppinangady in the taluk.

Poojary, who has been missing since July 26, was running a printing press at Nelyadi and was the pigmy agent for the Toddy Tappers’ Association of Nelyadi.

Only a letter

“I have been made a scapegoat in the financial scam that has taken place in a cooperative society. I will not live with this kind of insult,” wrote Poojary ion a three-page letter he left. In the letter me mentions that he was going to kill himself and the reason for his death was the president of the association Usha Anchan.

Scrutiny of the CCTV camera footage revealed that Krishnappa was walking by the petrol pump at around 3 am of July 26. Based on this clue, the police, along with the home guard flood protection force, searched in the Netravati River on Saturday, July 27 but no trace of the missing man was found. Consequently, the search has been intensified.

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