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 HC 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 New 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.

Around 9.30 am on June 6, “I spoke to him and he informed me that he was not in position to talk now”, his wife, Yamuna Gnanaprakasam, said in her complaint. “Thereafter, his mobile was continuously switched off,” she adds. Later, around 8 pm that evening, when she again called, another person answerezd the call, saying her husband was attending an meeting and would get in touch with her after two hours.

