MUMBAI: As mysteriously as Vinod Kumar Belwal, an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer, went missing four days ago, he reappeared at Dadar railway police station on Wednesday morning.
The IAF and Intelligence Bureau officers are interrogating the 46-year-old junior warrant officer from the Air Force station at Lohegaon in Pune to find out where he had been.
Belwal told the police that he was on leave from June 6 to June 28. He was to take the Jhelum Express to Dehradun on June 6. When he arrived at the Pune station around 2 pm, he found that the train was running late.
Since he had time on his hand, he decided to have a quick drink. However, Belwal said, he drank too much and boarded Mumbai-bound Trivandrum Express.
He reached Dadar around 9.30 pm. At Dadar station, he had another drink and dinner and slept on the platform. When he woke up the next morning, he found his luggage missing.
When he could not find his luggage, he boarded a Churchgate local and got off at Mumbai Central, where he booked a ticket for Dehradun in the Paschim Express for Wednesday.
He stayed there till Tuesday. But when he contacted his wife in Dehradun on Tuesday, she told him that a complaint saying he is missing has been registered at the Dadar railway police station.
On learning this, he went to Dadar railway police station, Belwal said.
“We recorded his statement and handed him over to the IAF,” senior inspector Narendra Kulkarni of the Dadar railway police station said.
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