KRISHNANAGAR: The officer given charge of EVMs and VVPATs for the Krishnanagar and Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituencies went missing on Thursday, 11 days sooner than polling right here, prompting the EC to appoint a substitute on Friday.
A family picture of Roy together with his spouse
Arnab Roy, a 2011-batch West Bengal Civil Services officer, was once noticed last on Thursday afternoon at the Biprodas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology in Krishnanagar, the designated strongroom for the electronic voting machines and the voter-verified paper audit path to be used.
Officials stated Roy worked with different election officers until about 2pm, when he was once last noticed, and added that his disappearance had to do with “private causes and no election-related issue”.
“It (the disappearance) is on account of private causes. I have been instructed that he was once suffering from despair. It has nothing to do with any election-related issue. A brand new officer has been despatched,” EC special observer for Bengal, Ajay V Nayak, stated on Friday.
Roy’s spouse, additionally a WBCS officer, refuted that he was once suffering from despair or that there was once any marital discord.
Bengal additional chief electoral officer Sanjay Basu stated all efforts had been on to trace Roy. Nadia DM Sumit Gupta, to whom Roy used to document, stated there was once nothing untoward in Roy’s fresh habits. “He did not seem depressed and did not talk about any drawback together with his colleagues,” Gupta stated. His family stated Roy “went missing for three days” as soon as earlier, in 2015.
Originally from Asansol’s Hirapur, Roy holds the rank of deputy magistrate and deputy collector and is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act nodal officer in Krishnanagar. His spouse, Anisha Jash, a WBCS officer of the 2017 batch, is posted in Krishnanagar. It was once Jash, who lodged the missing dairy at Krishnanagar’s Kotwali police station.
The missing officer’s father, Haradhan Roy, stated his son spoke usually when he last called on Poila Baisakh. “He has performed polls sooner than and never displayed any rigidity. My daughter-in-law called me on Thursday evening to invite whether or not he was once right here in Hirapur. Once earlier, in 2015, he went away somewhere for three days with out informing any person. We hope he's safe. We will succeed in Krishnanagar on Saturday,” the dad stated.
Cops questioned Roy’s driver, who stated he drove the officer to the tech institute around 11am on Thursday and then left. Roy worked with different election officers at the strong-room until about 2pm but went missing thereafter, officials added.
Cops are scanning CCTV photos. Roy additionally carried two cell-phones. The last recorded tower locations had been from Nadia’s Diknagar (around 12 kilometres from Krishnanagar) and Shantipur (around 17 kilometres from Krishnagore) around 5 pm on Thursday.
One cell-phone remained switched off but a choice from IdealNews reached his different number. A pre-recorded message stated the decision can’t be connected and it was once forwarded to some other number.
A family picture of Roy together with his spouse
Arnab Roy, a 2011-batch West Bengal Civil Services officer, was once noticed last on Thursday afternoon at the Biprodas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology in Krishnanagar, the designated strongroom for the electronic voting machines and the voter-verified paper audit path to be used.
Officials stated Roy worked with different election officers until about 2pm, when he was once last noticed, and added that his disappearance had to do with “private causes and no election-related issue”.
“It (the disappearance) is on account of private causes. I have been instructed that he was once suffering from despair. It has nothing to do with any election-related issue. A brand new officer has been despatched,” EC special observer for Bengal, Ajay V Nayak, stated on Friday.
Roy’s spouse, additionally a WBCS officer, refuted that he was once suffering from despair or that there was once any marital discord.
Bengal additional chief electoral officer Sanjay Basu stated all efforts had been on to trace Roy. Nadia DM Sumit Gupta, to whom Roy used to document, stated there was once nothing untoward in Roy’s fresh habits. “He did not seem depressed and did not talk about any drawback together with his colleagues,” Gupta stated. His family stated Roy “went missing for three days” as soon as earlier, in 2015.
Originally from Asansol’s Hirapur, Roy holds the rank of deputy magistrate and deputy collector and is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act nodal officer in Krishnanagar. His spouse, Anisha Jash, a WBCS officer of the 2017 batch, is posted in Krishnanagar. It was once Jash, who lodged the missing dairy at Krishnanagar’s Kotwali police station.
The missing officer’s father, Haradhan Roy, stated his son spoke usually when he last called on Poila Baisakh. “He has performed polls sooner than and never displayed any rigidity. My daughter-in-law called me on Thursday evening to invite whether or not he was once right here in Hirapur. Once earlier, in 2015, he went away somewhere for three days with out informing any person. We hope he's safe. We will succeed in Krishnanagar on Saturday,” the dad stated.
Cops questioned Roy’s driver, who stated he drove the officer to the tech institute around 11am on Thursday and then left. Roy worked with different election officers at the strong-room until about 2pm but went missing thereafter, officials added.
Cops are scanning CCTV photos. Roy additionally carried two cell-phones. The last recorded tower locations had been from Nadia’s Diknagar (around 12 kilometres from Krishnanagar) and Shantipur (around 17 kilometres from Krishnagore) around 5 pm on Thursday.
One cell-phone remained switched off but a choice from IdealNews reached his different number. A pre-recorded message stated the decision can’t be connected and it was once forwarded to some other number.
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