In the case of 21-year-old married woman N Sai Priya, who allegedly went missing from RK Beach in Visakhapatnam on Monday night, police confirmed that she was traced in Bengaluru on Wednesday night.
According to the police, she had eloped with the man with whom she was in love for many years and reached Bengaluru. Inspector Korada Rama Rao of Three Town police station said, “She had confirmed this in a message to her parents and it was told to us by her parents.”
She had gone missing from the beach on Monday night while her husband who had accompanied her was busy looking at something on his mobile phone.
On suspicion that she might have been swept away by the waves as she was playing in the water minutes before she went missing, the police, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard deployed all their resources to search for her in the Bay of Bengal was.
“That’s why we could not locate him despite search and rescue operations for the last 72 hours,” said Mr. Rama Rao.
Various social posts were doing the rounds since Wednesday morning that she had gone to Nellore. But the police did not comment on him until it was confirmed that he was in Bengaluru.
Sai Priya was married to Srinivasa Rao in July 2020. Srinivasa Rao works in a pharmacy company in Hyderabad, while Sai Priya was a housewife at their home in NAD Junction.
Srinivasa Rao had come to Visakhapatnam a few days back to celebrate his wedding anniversary. On Monday, the couple went to RK Beach. While Srinivasa Rao was looking at his mobile, Sai Priya went missing.
Police said that Sai Priya was in love with another man since her school days and according to her parents, she went to him. “But we are yet to find out how she went to Bengaluru or whether the person had come here and took her away,” police said.
The investigation continues.