Second Coming: Meghna Subhedar before she went missing and after she returned to her relative in Pune last week

Meghna Subhedar, the techie who resurfaced mysteriously in Pune last week, had worked with Hewlett Packard in Bangalore, but had resigned much before she went missing in April this year.

She was on contract with HP and was an employee of Genesis Software.

"She was not on our rolls. She continued to be on the rolls of her parent company, but worked for HP. She had resigned much before she went missing in April," said a source.

The company had not terminated her services. She had decided to quit on her own. "I do not remember the reason she cited for her resignation. For us it was just another resignation among the 100 we receive every week. It only after the Mumbai police came down to Bangalore to gather her details that we looked into her case specifically," the source told MiD DAY.

However, no official comment was forthcoming. Jayanthi Sethuraman, in charge of PR, HP India Sales, refused to react. No one from Genesis Software was available for comment.

What happened

Meghna was going back to her hometown Korba in Chattisgarh on April 10. She reached Mumbai from Bangalore at 4.50 am. She last called her father saying she was at Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai, and would board the Geetanjali Express.

When Meghna failed to reach home her parents lodged a complaint with the police on April 14. A police probe revealed Meghna had been using two credit cards. She had withdrawn Rs 5,000 from an ICICI Bank ATM in Andheri. The credit card was used the next day at an ATM in Goa.

Meghna's parents initially suspected she had been kidnapped in Mumbai and her abductors had been using her credit card.

They went to Goa, but were surprised to see CCTV clippings with Meghna withdrawing the money herself.
In July, Goa police found a decomposed body on Candolim beach in northern Goa. While her parents initially believed it to be that of their daughter, DNA tests proved otherwise.

Meghna had divorced her husband in 2004.

News reports say she has been mentally disturbed ever since. That perhaps explains why she does not recollect what she did in the last six months apart from begging in trains to sustain herself.