News Desk

NEW DELHI: A joint operation has been launched by the CISF and the local police to trace a scientist of the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, who went missing four days back, a top Indian police official said. “Intensive search is being carried out round-the-clock by a 40-member team, comprising the CISF and local police personnel, to trace N Mahalingam, missing since June 8 from the Kaiga township,” Superintendent of Police Uttara Kannada Raman Gupta said.It is being investigated whether it is a case of kidnapping or the 47-year-old scientist, who worked in the simulator training division of the power plant, went somewhere himself. The scientist, who went for a morning walk on June 8, did not return, he said.A complaint was lodged by his wife on June 8 in the Mallapur police station in Karwar. A joint search team was set up immediately and it combed the entire Kaiga residential campus, spread over 100 acres and searched a pond as part of the operation, Gupta said. “Till now, no clue has been found,” he said.