Kashmiri Medico’s missing No breakthrough for Indian Navy divers on day 4

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Sept 14: As the six-member team of Indian Navy divers failed to achieve any breakthrough to trace the body or what remains of it from Mansar lake on fourth straight day on Tuesday, the hopes of aggrieved family on unfolding mystery behind disappearance of a young Kashmiri medical student have been fading with every passing day.

Despite relentless efforts of Indian Navy divers equipped with sophisticated equipments, the body or what remains of it were not recovered from the lake.

When contacted, DySP, Sudarshan Bakshi, who is supervising the search operation, told Greater Kashmir that Police are hopeful that the body would be located and fished out from the lake water by the Navy divers.

He said that the divers have been searches step-by-step in the deep lake. “The divers have gone to 45 meters deep into water,” he said.

Zuhaib was a final year student of MBBS in Acharya Shri Chandra Medical College, (ASCOMS) Jammu and he disappeared on the banks of the lake on May 14. Police claimed the deceased had jumped into the lake but the victim’s mother had rejected the theory claiming that his son would never commit a suicide.

Sources said that they had found a wallet and identity card of Syed Zuhaib Rizvi on the bank of Mansar Lake on May 14.

The Indian Navy divers were being rushed to Jammu following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) after the state government approached the Union Ministries for Home and Defence.

The deceased’s mother, who camped at Mansar and in Jammu for four months, had approached the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah for his personal intervention into the matter.

This is for third time the divers help is being sought for tracing the body of medico from Kashmir. Earlier, on July 3 and July 4, an eight-member team of naval divers from Bandipora in Kashmir with the assistance of local divers searched the lake to trace him.