Panic spreads in South-Western Police range after Chhattisgarh bound Chopper missing
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Bhubaneswar (Orissa): Panic has once again griped the entire South-Western Police range of Orissa including outlawed CPI (Maoists) stronghold Malkangiri district, after a private Chhattisgarh bound chopper gone missing shortly after it took off from Hyderabad.
The chopper was booked by the Chhattisgarh Government to take a Minister of Dr Raman Singh's Cabinet to Jharkhand on Monday for functions at Ranchi and Daltonganj.
Though, security forces of Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa are making all effort to trace the Chopper, which was carrying four crew members including pilot, co-pilot, engineer and a technician but no headway till last reports came in from Orissa-Chhattisgarh border. A search operation is going on by the Chattisgarh police team along with the Orissa border.
South-Western police DIG, Sanjeeb Panda however informed that the Chhattisgarh Police doesn't intimate anything over the missing issue to them.
"We heard from other sources but we have not received any official information either from Andhra Pradesh or from Chhattisgarh," DIG Panda told our Correspondent over phone from Sunabeda, Koraput. The DIG further added that alert has been sounded along borders of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.
According to well-informed police sources, the Ran Air chopper was scheduled to land at Jagdalpur in Bastar district headquarters on Sunday for refueling and then enroute to Raipur but it went missing after it took off from Hyderabad at about 2 p.m on Sunday.
The chopper should have taken about 90 minutes to reach Jagdalpur after take off from Hyderabad but it has gone missing till now.
