Tutor abducted, hate note on wall

Assailants leave behind bloodied shirt

A private tutor went missing from Narela in outer Delhi on Wednesday, his abductors leaving behind some bloodstained clothes and a message alluding to his conversion to Christianity.

Ashish Peter, 35, who ran an English-speaking coaching centre at Swatantra Nagar Road in Narela, had left home to take classes at his institute, attended by students from the nearby Bankner village.

After an hour when his wife Ritu went to see him at the institute she found his bloodstained shirt on the classroom floor, and the office ransacked, police said.

She immediately informed police and her relatives about the incident. 

Ashish's brother-in-law Deepak told Deccan Herald that a note was scrawled on the wall, carrying a communal threat. But police are also looking into the possibility of the message being an attempt to mislead the investigation.

From the bloodstained shirt and the condition of the room, it looked there had been a scuffle between Ashish and the assailants.

Ashish, who hails from Uttar Pradesh had married Ritu 15 years ago. He had converted to her faith at the time of marriage. They have two children.

After the marriage, they came to Delhi and settled down in Narela and lived in rented accommodation. Police suspect Ashish had a relationship with a girl from Bankner village.

Deepak said that three days ago some youths from the village came to meet Ashish to have classes early in the morning, insisting that they wanted to learn to speak English as soon as possible.

The tutor was not carrying his mobile phone when he went to take the class, a police official said. Police have registered a case of a missing person and are investigating it from all angles.