Kashmir Reader: New Delhi: Wednesday, August 13, 2014.
Twenty Indian
soldiers posted in border areas, most of them in Jammu and Kashmir, have gone
missing from 1996 to 2010, according to an RTI reply.
As per the
reply given by the Ministry of External Affairs, 18 soldiers went missing from
Jammu and Kashmir while two disappeared from Gujarat.
· Havaldar
Bhupendra Bahadur Thapa, Netra Bahadur Thapa, Naik Hark Bahadur Rana and Lance
Naik Raju Gurang of Gorkha Rifles went missing from Krishna Ghati of Poonch
district in Jammu and Kashmir on August 12, 1996, the reply stated.
· Bhupendra,
Netra and Hark were residents of Nepal, while Raju hailed from Dehradun.
· Similarly,
Captain Avinash Kumar Sharma of 11 Engineer Regiment went missing from the
Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir on August 16, 1996, it said.
· Captain
Sanjiv Bhattacharjee and Lance Naik Ram Bahadur Thapa of Gorkha Rifles
disappeared from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat on April 27, 1997, the ministry
said.
· GNR
Virendra Singh of 286 Medium Regiment went missing from the Kaksar Sector of
Jammu and Kashmir on October 17, 1998.
· Gopal
Das of 8 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry went missing from Poonch Sector of
Jammu and Kashmir on August 20, 2000.
· Lance
Naik Jose James of 5131 ASC BN went missing from Kargil on June 15, 2003, the
reply stated.
· Krishna
Kumar of 6 Engineer Regiment went missing from the Uri Sector in Jammu and
Kashmir on August 8, 2003.
· Mahesh
and Sailesh Kumar Shukla of 539 ASC BN disappeared from Jammu and Kashmir on
July 8, 2005.
· Naik
Sandeep Singh of 234 AER Unit is also missing from Jammu and Kashmir since April
26, 2006.
· Vikram
Singh and Bishnu Rai of 17 Mahar Regiment went missing from Batalik on August
5, 2006.
· According
to the reply, Havaldar Ranjit Kumar and Rakesh Kumar of 15 Bihar Regiment went
missing from Siachin on August 6, 2010.
· On
the same day, riflemen Sewang Dorjai and Karma Namagil of Ladhak Scouts
Regiment Centre had gone missing from Leh.
· The
RTI reply did not mention anything about the reasons behind the disappearance
of the soldiers or their present condition.
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