Riding pillion on colleague's bike on a rainy evening, 26-year-oldu00a0 gets off when vehicle stalls on canal-side road, is never seen again

Hardik Mukesh Makwana (26), a software engineer working with an IT company in Lulla Nagar, disappeared without a trace on the night of June 3 from Wanawadi while on his way home with a friend. Makwana and his friend were returning home in Kharadi by the canal-side road at Jambhulkarmala instead of the Pune-Solapur road, which was choked because of heavy rain.

Makwana's friend Chirayu Kaushik Taylor (30), also a software engineer working in the same company, lodged the missing report at the Wanawadi police station. The six-feet-tall, well built Makwana was wearing a green T-shirt, light orange trousers and black shoes when he went missing. A native of Gujarat, he had been working with the IT company in the city the last few months.