Police investigations into his brother’s call detail records revealed that Feroz had made calls to several people before going off the grid, Lone added. “All of those people were picked up. The last call was made to someone named Rouf Ahmed, who is posted with the 175 battalion of the Territorial Army. He was summoned, too, but he denied knowing my brother. He was let go.”
Police, Lone said, later told the family that they had arrested a woman Feroz had called up, who claimed to have killed him. The woman allegedly told police that she had dumped the body in a river but the body was never found. “But we took her confession as the truth and tried to move on. Sometime later, the woman was released by police. I knew since then that something was wrong,” said Zahoor Lone.