Missing porter: Case filed against Army, BSF

Shyam Sood

Rajouri, October 17

After an ‘unsatisfactory’ response from senior officers of the Sikh Light Infantry Unit and the 163 Battalion of the BSF in the investigation of a missing civilian, working as a porter with the Sikh unit, the Rajouri police have registered a case against these units.

The case has been registered under Sections 343 (wrongful confinement for three or more days), 364 (kidnapping/abducting in order to murder) and 109 (act abetted is committed in consequence) on the complaint of Isma Bi, mother of the missing porter.

SSP Yougal Manhas said a case had been registered against the Sikh LI, Engineering Unit and the BSF Bn.

“The police have started an investigation which is at initial stage. The persons and officials concerned would be questioned during the investigation,” the SSP said.

Safeer Ahmed Khan, a resident of Pathanteer, Mendhar in Poonch district, was working as a porter with the Sikh LI Unit, operating in Keri sector in Rajouri district, till August 14 this year and then went missing mysteriously.

The mother and wife of Safeer alleged that unit officers were involved in his disappearance.

His mother alleged that immediately after her son’s disappearance, she approached the police at Mendhar as well as at the Chingus police post but without any satisfactory action.

She also alleged that the family had not received any positive response from the Army in locating her missing son.