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Wife of missing jawan approaches Governor

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The CRPF personnel boards a train for Jammu on April 26

BHUBANESWAR: Wife of a ‘missing’ personnel of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Friday made a desperate plea to Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare seeking his intervention to trace her husband.

The 26-year-old Bijaylaxmi Padhi, who has been running from pillar to post for last fortnight, questioned how her husband got missed from a train while the paramilitary force is maintaining a studied silence over the issue.

According to Ms. Padhi, her husband Sarat Padhi has been posted as assistant to Pankaj Pokhraj, commanding officer of the 121 battalion.

“My husband boarded a train to Jammu from Assam on April 26. In the same train, wife and son of the commanding officer were also travelling. He was supposed to reach Jammu on April 28. But I received a call from Pokhraj sahib on April 27 that there was no trace of my husband ever since he got down to drink water at Bhagalpur station,” Ms. Padhi said.

She said the commanding officer told her that the CRPF had intimated it to the Government Railway Police and asked her to wait for a couple of days.

During the last 15 days, the woman, who married the CRPF personnel in 2003 and a mother of four-year-old son, approached every authority.

“Besides filing a complaint with local police station, I have made rounds to CRPF group centre, office of Commissioner of Police and office of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and nobody was willing to take the responsibility of tracing my husband,” Ms. Padhi said.

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