Three days after the mysterious disappearance of Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) president (Manufacturing) Ashwani Kumar Bhat, police are still groping in the dark amid concerns that he may have been kidnapped in the dacoit-infested region.Bhat went missing near Gwalior on Friday when he was on his way to Indore in a hired car. The driver is also missing. “We haven't registered a case of kidnapping because there is no evidence as yet,” DIG (Gwalior) Adarsh Katiar told The Indian Express. No one has made a ransom call as yet. So far, only a missing person’s complaint has been lodged in Indore. A team of FSL officials from Madhya Pradesh inspected the car that was found abandoned in Rajasthan’s Dholpur district. Bhat is in charge of the Pithampur plant and is also the chief of the pharmaceutical major's manufacturing facilities in the country. He stays in Indore with his wife and daughter. The family thinks he could have been mistaken for a rich industrialist and kidnapped. “We are a middle class family. My husband is only an employee of the company, not an industrialist,” his wife Basanti said on Monday.
