According to reports in India the body of Ranjit Singh Power has been recovered from the Anandpur Sahib forest area.
After 13 days after groping in the dark, commissionerate police have claimed that UK-based NRI hotelier Ranjit Singh Power was murdered and his body was thrown into the Bhakhra Canal at Anandpur Sahib of Ropar district.
The Foreign Office confirmed the death of a British national in India.
James Jagpal, general manager at the Ramada Park Hall Hotel, which Mr Power owns said: “We have just been notified of the death of Mr Power, one of our directors. Mr Power was a large part of the Ramada Park Hall Hotel and Spa and I know the whole team here will be extremely upset. I will assure Mr Power’s wishes regarding the hotel will be delivered. At this time my whole team will need time to grieve for such an charismatic person.”
Mr Power’s family have asked for privacy while they grieve.
Yesterday it emerged that Mr Power may have travelled to Phagwara – which is just over 50 miles from the Anandpur Sahib forest area – after flying out to India.
In northern India, Phagwara is more than 60 miles away from Amritsar Airport in Punjab, which is where Mr Power arrived for a last-minute business trip on May 7.
He was last seen at an airport in Amritsar, Punjab on 8 May. His family feared he had been kidnapped and reported him missing a week later.
The Foreign Office has confirmed the death of a British national in India.
Local journalist Ravinder Singh Robin told the BBC a local man has been arrested and police are examining a car they think was used in connection with the murder.
Mr Robin said Mr Power had been strangled.
Suspected Accused Arrested
The police have arrested Sukhdev Singh, the driver who was nephew, of kidnapping accused Baldev Singh Deol who fled away country seven days after committing the crime.
The police said that we have yet to find out the exact reason behind murdering the hotelier but it cleared that both accused Deol, another UK based citizen and hotelier were in running property business in Jalandhar and UK.
DCP Rajinder Singh said that they took hotelier from Amritsar to Goindwal Sahib and Shahkot to Jagraon and then finally reached at Anandpur Sahib via Phagwara and Nawanshahr on May 8.
He said that at first, they put polythene on Power’s face and stabbed him and threw his naked body in Bhakhra canal on the same night.
DCP added that we have yet to recover the dead body and a team is already engaged there to trace body.