CCD outlets across the nation to remain shut today over founder VG Siddhartha's death
Bengaluru, July 31 (IBNS): All Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) outlets across the nation will remain shut on Wednesday to mourn the death of the coffee shop chain's founder VG Siddhartha, media reports said.
Police recovered the body of businessman VG Siddhartha, who has been missing for the past two days, from the banks of the Netravathi River in Karnataka’s Mangaluru area on Wednesday early morning.
VG Siddhartha, the son-in-law of BJP leader SM Krishna, went missing on Monday.
A massive team of 100 firefighters, 100 policemen, 50 divers, 50 fishermen and 30 boats earlier conducted a search operation find the businessman.
According to The News Minute report, a fisherman named Ritesh on a trawler boat found the body when he cast his net into the waters. Since the police had informed fishermen to keep an eye out, Ritesh suspected that the body could have been Siddhartha's and immediately informed a local resident (Ashwath), who subsequently intimidated the local corporator Diwakar Pandeshwar and then the trio informed the local police.
Siddharth's body has been sent to hospital for post-motem.
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