Chennai CBI ordered to look into case of missing Lankan

The Kerala High Court ordered Special Crimes Branch of the CBI, Chennai, to investigate the missing Anitha Nair, 37, her husband Ramachandran and Sri Lankan national Sreerangan Surang on Thursday.

Anitha Nair, a native of Kannadi village in Palakkad, had been residing at Hyderabad since 1991 with her husband and son Vineeth Nair. She used to work as a teacher in Johnson Grammar High School, Afsiguda, Hyderabad.

She was found missing from the Maldives, where she was working as school teacher, since 2003.

Anitha came to India on vacation on October 21, 2003. She boarded flight from Thiruvananthapuram Airport for Maldives on December 28, 2003.

Thereafter, she was found missing. As there was no information about Anitha, her father Achuthan Nair filed a complaint to the Superintendent of Police, Palakkad, and a case was registered. The case was transferred to Crime Branch and subsequently to CBI.During the investigation it was revealed that when Anitha Nair was in the Maldives, she used to stay in a hotel and she had developed intimacy with Sreerangan Surang, a Sri Lankan who was the receptionist in the same hotel.

Sreerangan left Maldives for Colombo in 2004 and he is also missing.

From the investigation conducted by the CBI at Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu it has been revealed that Anitha Nair last came to India on July 10, 2004 from Colombo.

Ramachandran has also been missing since 2004.  (ENS)