Missing army jawan found in his native village in Bihar

Nashik: An army jawan who had been reported missing from Artillery Centre has been found in his native village in Bihar on Thursday. Deolali Camp Senior police inspector Subhash Lakshman Dhawale said on Thursday that the police had managed to get in contact with the family of the missing jawan and found that he was in Hatwa village of Bihar.

Earlier a complaint stating that jawan Rajesh Mohan Giri (29) of 61 Field Regiment has been missing, was registered in Deolali Camp police station by Subedar Sanjeeb Kantilal. Giri had left the army area and announced that he was going to watch a film on Sunday and had not returned since. The army authorities were looking for him at his native village in Gopalganj district of Bihar. When he was not found, a missing complaint was lodged.

In March this year, a soldier artillery gunner D.S. Roy Matthews (33), working as a ‘buddy’ in School of Artillery was reported missing and after some days, his decomposed body was found hanging on March 2 this year, in a remote area. He had committed suicide.

Later cases were filed against a journalist and a retired army officerfor allegedly abetting the suicide. They had allegedly conducted a sting operation in the Haigline area of the Military, on the ‘buddy’ system.