Missing Army captain's body found in MP river
August 18, 2022  19:13
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Three days after an Army captain hailing from Kerala went missing while undergoing a training course in Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram, his body was recovered from a river in the district, the police said on Thursday. 

The deceased, Captain Nirmal Sivarajan (32), who hailed from Mamangalam in Ernakulam district of Kerala, was undergoing training at the Army Education Corps Centre at Pachmarhi when he went missing, Makhan Nagar sub divisional police pfficer Madan Mohan Samar said. 

The police said that the captain had fallen into the swollen Bachwada river while he was driving back to Pachmarhi on August 15 after meeting his wife, a Lieutenant posted in Jabalpur. 

They had got married just three months ago, they said. 

The captain was from Army Education Corps from Suratgarh (in Rajasthan), his acquaintance said. 

"The body, which was entangled in a tree in Bachwada river on Naseerabad road in Makhan Nagar tehsil, about 40 to 45 km from Narmadapuram district headquarters, was recovered by divers and police," Samar said. 

The army officer's car was also located in the river, about two kilometres away from his body, he added. 

Makhan Nagar police station inspector Hemant Shrivastava said the captain fell into the swollen river with his car and drowned while negotiating a culvert over the water body after taking a detour to reach Pachmarhi. 

After post-mortem, his body was handed over to army authorities, he added. -- PTI
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