Navy officer from Odisha goes ‘missing’ while heading to Kochi unit, police say seen on CCTV

According to his mother, helium called her astatine 3:50 americium –- aft helium had boarded his bid –- and asked her not to get worried.

“When I called him again astatine astir 8:30 am, his telephone was switched off. We tried to telephone him, but it remained turned off. Since helium had to instrumentality the 12:30 p.m. formation from Visakhapatnam, we checked with airdrome authorities determination but they told america that that helium had not checked in,” she said, adding that the household reached retired to his Naval portion successful Kochi, the INS Garuda, to assistance find him.

She approached the Town Police presumption successful Berhampur Wednesday based connected which constabulary registered a lawsuit and launched an investigation.

Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M told The Indian Express that CCTV images amusement helium got disconnected the bid astatine Ichchapuram successful Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam territory and took an car rickshaw “instead of going to Visakhapatnam”.

“He besides near his idiosyncratic tablet, which helium ever carries, astatine home,” helium said.

The antheral was precocious posted astatine the INS Garuda. He came location successful December to be a wedding.

His younger member urged authorities to instrumentality up the lawsuit connected priority. “My member is serving the nation. So, our petition to the authorities to instrumentality up the lawsuit with apical priority,” helium said. He besides denied his member had “any animosity”, saying: “His behaviour was besides perfectly mean arsenic helium had travel to be a matrimony relation of a relative.”