Jaipur: A 35-year-old bus driver who went missing on Oct 11 was found dead at Amer hills, Saturday, with an empty Celphos pesticide packet recovered near his decomposed body.The deceased, Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Patalwas village in Aandhi, had left for Jaipur with passengers on Oct 11. His mobile phone switched off around 9.30pm, and his bus was later found parked at Ramgarh Mod.After failing to trace him, his family lodged a missing-person complaint at Brahmpuri police station on Oct 12.Police tracking his mobile number found it active late on Friday night. The phone’s location indicated the hills near Handipura in Amer, prompting a search operation on Saturday morning.Police personnel trekked around 1.5km into the hills and found Kumar’s body around 12.30pm.Police said the circumstances surrounding his death were being investigated. They have not yet established whether the pesticide packet was linked to his death.
