10 BSF jawans en route to J&K on army special train go missing

Shubhadeep Choudhury

Tribune News Service

Kolkata, June 28

Disappearance of 10 BSF jawans from a special train heading for Jammu is a case of French leave taken by the jawans, a BSF spokesperson here said.

Personnel from the 83rd battalion of the BSF boarded the special train on Tuesday from a station in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. Their absence was first noticed at the Mughalsarai junction on Wednesday evening. The jawans found absent are believed to have disappeared from the train between Bardhaman station of West Bengal and Dhanbad in Jharkhand.

“In all likelihood the jawans are from the Jharkhand area and they went to their respective homes,” RP Jaswal, DIG, posted in the BSF’s South Bengal Frontier Headquarters here, said.

Special trains meant for security forces take a long time to reach their destinations. The 10 BSF jawans who disembarked en route are expected to reach Jammu on their own and report for duty. However, they will face disciplinary action for their unauthorised absence.

A complaint has been filed with the Government Railway Police in Mughalsarai station, known now as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar railway station, saying the jawans have gone “absent without leave”.

Filing police complaint under such circumstances is routine, the DIG said.