With police showing no interest in finding Avdhut Shinde, wanted in the Netherlands for the murder of his wife Sharmila, her friends are urging senior Pune police officers to convert a non-cognisable offence into a First Information Report. They believe an FIR will ensure more manpower is allocated to tracking down Shinde, who has been on the run for four months.

mid-day was the first publication to report about Sharmila's mysterious death in The Hague on May 21. The next week, Avdhut turned up unannounced at his father's Malad home, left his two children there and disappeared.