Young techie goes missing after visiting Sri Sri's Art of Living ashram

Bengaluru, Oct 13: A young software engineer has been reported missing after he left Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's The Art of Living ashram on Kanakapura Road in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

The family members of Aditya Shrivastava (31) have filed a missing complaint in his hometown of Hyderabad. Kaggalipura police station in Kanakapura Main Road in the city has also registered a similar complaint.

Kaggalipura police said Shrivastava attended a Navaratri celebration at the ashram. He last messaged his fiance Krithika, at 9pm Monday, saying he was on his way to catch a bus to Hyderabad.

According to a family friend, he visited a friend on Monday afternoon, and returned by 6pm. At 8.30pm, he called his mother to say he had reached the bus stop."We are working with police and authorities in both cities but need help from everyone possible," wrote one of his friends on Facebook.

Police, who tracked the last signal from his phone to Bellandur, said they are going through CCTV footage to ascertain if he left the city.