Thursday, June 2 2005 15:52 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: A senior global delivery manager with the IBM who arrived in Kolkata from London for his wedding has gone missing mysteriously.

The man, Rajiv Bhattacharya, who had arrived on May 29 for his wedding on June 3, left his Salt Lake home yesterday (June 1, 2005) at around 10:00 am to go to a private bank at Ultadanga nearby, the police said today (June 2, 2005).

Rajiv called up his father an hour later and asked him to hand over a blank cheque to the family's driver Gajendra Roy.

The driver told the police that he handed over the cheque to Rajiv inside the bank and waited for him outside. When he did not come out, he informed Rajiv's father.

Roy has been detained, the sources said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee expressed concern at the disappearance of the London-based senior IBM employee.

''This is a serious matter ... I will talk to the Police Commissioner about it,'' Bhattacharjee told newsmen when asked about the IBM official's disappearance.

Earlier, Rajiv's father Saroj Bhattacharya handed over a written complaint to the Chief Minister's personal secretary and appealed for help to trace his son.

Asked whether he would order a CBI enquiry as was done in the case of college student Roma Jhawar who was kidnapped from Salt Lake on Feb 4, 2005 but found 24 hours later, the Chief Minister said, ''I have not yet read the written statement. Let me go through it first.''