New Delhi: Taarak Mehta Ka OOlta Chashma (TMKOC) actor Gurucharan Singh, who has been missing for nearly two weeks now, likely “planned” his own disappearance. Police sources revealed Gurucharan left his phone in the Palam area of Delhi and has “moved out of” the city.
Delhi police sources were quoted as saying, “He left his phone in the Palam area. We are trying to find but it only makes it more difficult for us to trace Gurucharan Singh, because this means that the phone is not with the actor. In the CCTV footage we recovered that he was seen moving from one e-rickshaw to another. Looks like, he had planned everything and has moved out of Delhi.”
The actor went missing on April 22 evening. His father lodged a missing complaint, saying his son had left for Mumbai on April 22 at 8.30 pm. The actor had left his home to take a flight to Mumbai. But he did not reach Mumbai, nor did he return to his home, and his phone was also unreachable, the complaint stated.
A few days later, a team of the Delhi Police Special Cell visited Gurucharan’s house to investigate his mysterious disappearance. It also found that Gurucharan withdrew ₹7,000 from an ATM in Delhi. His last known location, on April 24, was traced to be Palam, a few kilometres away from his home. His phone has been switched off since then.
“His flight was scheduled for 8.30 pm on Monday, but he was seen at a traffic intersection in Palam at around 9.14 pm,” officials said, as per the report. He was seen crossing the road, carrying a backpack in the last found CCTV footage of the actor. In his complaint, Gurucharan’s father said that he left for Mumbai from Delhi via a flight on April 22, but never reached the destination. The police are also monitoring CCTV footage around his home to trace the route he took to the airport.
The Delhi police has already lodged an FIR under Section 365 (abduction). He was last seen on April 22 near the Delhi airport with a backpack, the police had said, citing CCTV footage.
Gurcharan rose to fame after playing the role of Roshan Singh Sodhi in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. Even though his character was one of the most popular ones on the show, Gurcharan left it in 2013 but returned the next year. He finally left the show in 2020. Gurcharan was replaced by actor Balwinder Singh Suri.
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