Canberra: Police were searching a beach on Phillip Island, 140 km south-southeast of Melbourne, for clues to the suspicious disappearance of an Indian delivery van driver who went missing last year, media reported Tuesday.

Shiva Chauhan, 27, went missing after carrying out his regular deliveries May 1 last year with his locked van found next day in Keysborough, a suburb of Melbourne, The Melbourne Age reported. He was last seen at a bakery in Dandenong South about 12.30 a.m. the following day.