True story of Meese Ashok’s disappearance comes to light

True story of Meese Ashok’s disappearance comes to light

Mangalore Today News Network

Moodbidri, March 9, 2012 : Ashok, popularly known as Meese Ashok for his Veerappan-style moustache and almost revered for his ability to handle any emergency ranging from fire to snakes, was kidnapped by a group of unidentified persons on Dec 7, 2010. Ashok was an office assistant in a local college and was also an active Home Guard.

 

Ashok’s wife Chandravathi said that some people arrived on a motor bike and took Ashok away, after which he never returned. His mobile phone remained switched off after that incident. Chandravathi lodged a missing person complaint with the local police, but the police were unable to trace him.

Ashok never had any enemies since he was always at the beck and call of everybody he knew and was respected for his ability to handle emergencies. People still miss him.

Possible reasons for Ashok’s disappearance came to light a few months after his disappearance. Local people captured photographs of Chandravathi and Ashok’s brother Sathish in a semi-clad and compromising position. The couple were making out on Gommatta Betta in Karkala, the hill on which the statue of Gomateshwara is located. The local people who captured these photos began circulating them widely. When this came to the notice of the police, they arrested the couple, but let them off with a warning.

Ashok’s brother Sathish and Chandravathi began behaving as if they were married. Sources close to the family said that the widow hardly expressed any grief over the disappearance of her husband. Although Sathish was already married, he treated his wife and children badly and continued having a relationship with Chandravathi.

Recently, the two had a quarrel, as a result of which a number of family secrets were leaked into the public. Chandravathi had always wanted her husband out of the way so that there would be no obstacles to her relationship with Sathish. Meanwhile, Chandravathi’s daughter Ashwini was in love with a man belonging to another religion and the match was severely opposed by her father Ashok. The father and the daughter used to frequently quarrel over this matter. Since Ashwini considered her father to be an obstacle to her relationship, she is believed to have supported her mother in her plans to make her father disappear.

The mother and the daughter are believed to have smashed his head with a stone on the night of Dec 7. They then took the body to Someshwar and dumped it in River Seetanadi.

The public had for long suspected that Ashok was murdered by his own family, but they kept quiet out of respect for Ashok. It was Chandravathi, who finally let the cat out of the bag. When her relationship with Sathish soured, the story slowly leaked into the public and caught the attention of the police. Under police interrogation, the mother – daughter duo confessed that they had murdered Ashok.