NEW DELHI: Eight years after a military intelligence officer went missing from Chennai and Tamil Nadu police failed to find him, the Central Bureau of Investigation has now taken over the probe and registered an FIR. The Madras high court had in June this year asked CBI to probe the matter.

P Gnanaprakasam, who worked as examiner in the military intelligence of Army headquarters in Delhi, went missing from Chennai in June 2010 when he had gone there to attend his brother-in-law’s wedding at Kutteripattu near Tindivanam, around 130 kms from Chennai.

His wife, Yamuna Gnanaprakasam, said in her complaint that on June 5th evening, around 5.30 pm, he left home saying he will stay with a friend, Periyasamy, at pachiappa’s College for one night so that he can pick up their son, who was returning to Chennai Central station from Ooty by Nilgiri Express on June 6 morning.

Whem Yamuna called to check whether he had picked up their son from the railway station, P Gnanaprakasam replied “in panic” that he was unable to go and asked to send someone from home to pick up their son.

Yamuna’s elder brother K E Paramasivam then picked the boy from the railway station.

She called her husband repeatedly. Around 9.30 am on June 6, “I spoke to him and he informed me that he was not in a position to talk now”, Yamuna says in her complaint.

“Thereafter, his mobile was continuously switched off,” she adds.

Later, around 8 pm that day, when she again called, another person answered the call, saying her husband was attending an important meeting and would get in touch with her after two hours as they were in Tirupati.

Since then, the officer is yet to be found.

Tamil Nadu CB-CID was probing the matter but filed a closure report as it could not find him.

