Missing DU was last seen on Signature Bridge: Police

Her friends informed investigators that she had been disturbed and emotionally distressed for the past fewer months

Sneha Debnath. Photo: ANI

A 19-year-old Delhi University student, missing for much than 5 days, was past seen adjacent the Signature Bridge, constabulary said connected Sunday.

"Sneha Debnath, a nonmigratory of Paryavaran Complex successful southbound Delhi, was reported missing connected July 7," a constabulary connection read.

A missing idiosyncratic FIR has been filed astatine Mehrauli Police Station, and a hunt for Sneha has been launched.

According to the police, Sneha near a handwritten enactment behind, indicating an intent to leap disconnected the span built crossed the Yamuna river.

"... constabulary traced Sneha's movements done method surveillance and confirmed her past known determination arsenic the Signature Bridge. "The cab operator who dropped her astatine the tract has corroborated the statement. Some eyewitnesses stated they saw a miss lasting connected the span and aboriginal disappearing from the spot," the connection read.

A hunt cognition has been launched with the assistance of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and section constabulary units, which are particularly combing areas from Nigam Bodh Ghat to Noida.

Police besides said that Sneha had sent messages done email and messaging apps to her adjacent friends successful the aboriginal hours of July 7. Her friends informed investigators that she had been disturbed and emotionally distressed for the past fewer months.

Sneha's household and friends person expressed concerns astir the surveillance infrastructure successful the area.

A adjacent person of Sneha sent an email to reporters and claimed that nary of the CCTV cameras connected the Signature Bridge oregon successful the vicinity were operational a the clip she was spotted there.

"Despite the Signature Bridge being a suicide-prone area, determination is not a azygous CCTV camera that works connected the span oregon successful adjacent areas. The span reportedly falls nether the jurisdiction of 4-5 antithetic constabulary stations. Though cameras person been installed by these stations individually, nary of them are functional," she said.

The lone surveillance instrumentality successful moving information is simply a velocity detection camera that takes inactive photos of speeding vehicles and does not grounds immoderate video, she added.