Actor Vishal Thakkar, who made a brief appearance in Munnabhai MBBS left his home on 31 December, 2015, and hasn’t returned until this day. According to a report in The Indian Express, Thakkar was last seen by his girlfriend on Ghodbunder Road at 11.45 am on January 1, as he hailed an autorickshaw to Andheri for a shoot, stated the police.
Thakkar had stepped out from his Mulund home to watch Star Wars, The Force Awakens on 31st night and had also invited his mother, Durga.
“I have no clue what happened to my son,” Durga, 60 told The Indian Express. After three years, he remains untraceable.
Vishal had a seven-minute role in Munnabhai MBBS (2003), as well as Tango Charlie (2005) and TV show, Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma.
His last Facebook post at 12:10 pm read, ‘Happy New Year’ and soon after, his phone was switched off. As per the report, it hasn’t been switched on again, nor has there been any bank activity.
Former investigating officer Mahendra Puri, who filed the missing complaint at Mulund police station, told Indian Express: “Initially, we suspected the girlfriend. But her statement had no discrepancies.”
Inspector N A Kulkarni said: “We don’t know if it’s a murder, or a kidnapping, or he has run away.”
According to Indian Express, Vishal had been accused of sexual harassment and rape by his ex girlfriend, a TV actor three months prior to his disappearance. “She frequented our house. One day they were together and the next day, she landed at my door with police. It was a minor fight. Later, the two of them resolved it,” said Durga. As per the report, she soon withdrew her complaint.
Eight months ago she was found dead in her Kandivali flat, possibly due to a heart attack, reports The Indian Express.
The police state that he was depressed due to the bad reputation that complaint garnered.
Constable Rajesh Pandey, who is known to have traced 800 missing persons in Mumbai, was given the case. As per the report, he has posted Vishal’s photo on a pan-India network of railway officers, hospitals and police officers probing missing persons. “No trace yet,” he told The Indian Express.
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