Indirapuram Station House Officer Ashutosh Kumar had told Newsline on Friday that Sharma’s relatives came to inquire about his whereabouts that day, not to file a missing person’s report.
But on Monday, the SHO said the missing report was filed on Friday itself.
“As Sharma lived in Sector-62 Noida, we were in touch with the Noida police,” SHO Kumar said, “but they refused to take any responsibility. As we had CCTV footage showing him going out of the mall, we thought he must have gone to Patiala to meet his family.”