'Missing' cop was stuck in office lift for 2 days!

Updated On: 16 April, 2013 06:18 AM IST | | Vinay Dalvi

While search teams combed hospitals and went as far as Solapur in search of inspector Suresh Sonawane of the missing persons bureau, it emerged yesterday that the cop who couldn't be found since Saturday was trapped inside the elevator for 42 hours

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'Missing' cop was stuck in office lift for 2 days!

When the second-in-command at Mumbai Crime Branch’s missing persons bureau himself went missing, minds expectedly went to work on overdrive, seeking explanations. While theories ranged from abduction to accident, nobody thought of looking inside the lift. And so Inspector Suresh Masaji Sonawane had to spend a nightmarish weekend, stuck in the lift of his office building for a harrowing 42 hours.

Sonawane was trapped in this lift at Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Market building, opposite the police headquarters in Crawford Market