Police trainee goes missing

VADODARA, March 18: Mystery shrouds the disappearance of a 30-year old policeman while he was undergoing training at the Police Training School here in May last.

Ashwin Dhanabhai Chamar, a resident of Dehgam taluka in Gandhinagar district, had joined the State Reserve Police Force initially. However, after six months he felt that the mainstream police job was more lucrative that SRPF and hence joined the armed unit of the state police in Ahmedabad.

He was sent for two months training in PTS here. He, however, disappeared all of a sudden from PTS on May 30, 1998. When he did not return, the PTS authorities sent a notice to Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad, about the trainee8217;s disappearance on June 6, 1998. An FIR was also lodged with the Navapura police station the same day, according to PTS principal H C Solanki. An official communication about his disappearance was also sent to his parents. His parents, however, deny the receipt of any notice or information from PTS about their son8217;s disappearance.