Goemkarponn Desk
XELDEM: The body of Prakalp Gauns Dessai, 23, of Xeldem-Quepem was found. It is believed that Dessai committed suicide in the Zuari River at Sanvordem early on Thursday morning.
After a protracted search by the Curchorem Police, Coastal Police, and fire brigade officials, the body was found.
Dessai went on an outing on Wednesday night and failed to return home; on Thursday morning, he was first reported missing.
Prakalp allegedly texted his brother at around two in the morning on Thursday, telling him of his intention to take his own life. The distraught family then filed a missing person’s report with Quepem police.
A Quepem police team tracked down Prakalp’s scooter driver and parked it on the Sanvordem bridge after obtaining information from his cell phone.
Police and firefighters searched the area all day Thursday without finding the body, and a team had been set up to monitor the area. When search efforts were reopened on Friday morning, authorities discovered the body in the river close to the ACM Jetty.
A subsequent autopsy was conducted on the body at the South Goa District Hospital in Margao.
On Friday, Subhash Phal Desai, the Sanguem MLA and Minister for Social Welfare, who had previously visited the scene on Thursday, was also there and helped lift the body before it was sent for
