NEW DELHI: Indian authorities confirmed on Wednesday they have recovered the body of coffee baron V.G. Siddhartha, who was missing since Monday night, from the Nethravathi River near Mangaluru in the southern Karnataka state.
Siddhartha, the founder of the Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) chain, was not reachable since late Monday, his flagship entity Coffee Day Enterprises said in a regulatory filing.
“Based on preliminary reports, the police have identified the body as that of V.G. Siddhartha,” a police officer told Reuters.
His family has been notified, the officer added.
Siddhartha was traveling to Mangaluru, a port city about 350 kilometers from India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, when he had asked his driver to wait for him on a bridge while he went for a walk, a police official had told Reuters. When Siddhartha did not return, the driver alerted the police.
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