kolkata the cid has resumed investigation into the disappearance of indian museum official sunil upadhyay following a fresh complaint from his family apparently a gardener working at the museum has provided them with a new clue as well though the sleuths claimed to have found no direct evidence they now know that upadhyay was investigating the alleged manhandling of a museum gardener cid believes some people with vested interests had conspired to remove the gardener from his post and upadhyay was coming in the way of their intentions upadhyays family members have claimed that he was investigating a moneylending racket operating in the museum said cid sources but even before he could submit his report he went missing they alleged among those questioned in the past two days are top administrative and security officers of the museum including director p venugopal cid sources said the ambit of the probe has now expanded with indications of a larger conspiracy that was hatched on the museum campus though cid remained mum on the nature of this conspiracy museum sources had pointed at a possible financial scam a charge that has so far being rubbished by the museum authorities who have challenged anyone to find evidence in this regard the cid and south division cops have already questioned around 93 people friends acquaintances and colleagues of upadhyay the cid to which the probe was transferred from kolkata police had said a few days back that unless the office rivalry angle is established there is little left to investigate leaving it a dead case however they had also said that there was no question of formally shutting the case upadhyays brother anil however said if cid draws a blank in the case we will demand a cbi probe we are not satisfied with cids probe neither did they speak to half of the museum officials nor did they explore all the loose ends so many complaints have surfaced against the museum authority but most were not probed upadhyay left home around 6pm on july 3 last year apparently only with his purse he reportedly told his cousin with whom he lived that he was going to rabindra sarobar lake for a walk but never returned the 33yearold chief conservation scientist was scheduled to reach pune to attend a meeting the next day his brothers anil and rajesh lodged a complaint like cid the charu market police who had initially registered a case had also found a deliberate plan in upadhyays leaving home without his mobile phone upadhyay who had been asked by the union ministry of art and culture to lead indias efforts to document swami vivekanandas chicago speech on his 150th birth anniversary visited the us city regularly