Senior IOC official goes missing in Assam
A massive search operation has been launched to trace the missing person
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-10-27 05:07 GMT
Assam: In what has created sensation in oil field of Upper Assam, an executive director designate of the Assam Oil Division of the Indian oil Corporation Kaushik Bora has gone missing in a mysterious circumstance from Digboi in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district on Sunday.
Police said that it has launched a massive search operation after the family members of Mr Bora registered an FIR with Digboi police station on Sunday afternoon. Informing that police have recovered the Alto car in which he was travelling, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that no militant groups has claimed the responsibility so far.
Pointing out that neither his family nor the oil company has received any ransom call yet, security sources said that they are yet to ascertain the identity of his abductors.
Assam home secretary Gynendra Tripathy told this newspaper that police have got some clue on missing executive director of IOC. “We are trying to rescue him at the earliest,” he said.
Clarifying that they are not ruling out the possibility of “honey-trap” kind of incident also which has been frequently been reported from the oil sector of Upper Assam, security sources said that police was working on all kinds of information to trace the executive director Mr Bora who hails from central Assam?s Nagaon district.
Mr Bora, who was about to be promoted to Executive Director rank of the Digboi Refinery of IOC, had left his home at about 10 am on Sunday but went missing soon after. Police said that Mr Bora’s car was left abandoned on Digboi-Pengeri road near an oil well.
Pointing out that his car was found locked on the road, police however clarified that the official himself was driving the car and they are yet to ascertain if it was a case of kidnapping or a missing case.