New Delhi: A Special Forces officer, who was serving as an Aide de Camp to the Arunachal Pradesh Governor, has been declared an “absconder” by the Indian Army after he went missing while on a vacation in Spain in August.
Army sources said that Major Sharyf Bhonsle had gone to Spain allegedly without informing the authorities concerned about it.
He had taken leave in June and was supposed to report back on duty in August but he did not, they said.
Initial inputs suggested that he was taking part in adventure games and had injured himself, but there was no information after that, the sources said. The Indian Embassy is Madrid was also roped in but the officer could not be found, they said. The sources said his family as well as his unit did not have any information about him.
Following this, an Army Court of Inquiry was set up at the Para Regimental Centre, Bengaluru, which declared him an absconder.
Sources said that the officer had not sought clearances from the Military Intelligence as is the rule for all serving officers to travel abroad. The officer was on deputation with government of Arunachal for the last one year. He was from the same para unit as was Governor Lt Gen (retd) Nirbhay Sharma.
