Family of missing mines officer seeks CBI help

Bellary: The worried family of missing Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) officer, Ibrahim Sharief is preparing to approach the Odisha High Court and plead with it to direct the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to join the search for him.

The 34 year old officer from Yashwanthanagar village in Sandur, who is an assistant controller of mines in Bhubaneshwar, went missing on November 25.

“We will shortly file a petition in the Odisha High Court seeking a CBI probe into Ibrahim’s sudden disapperance as our repeated pleas to both the Odisha and Karnataka governments and the Centre have not helped locate him,” said the missing officer’s brother, Jeelan, revealing that the Odisha police had however,  informed the family that Ibrahim had been last traced to Dehradun in Uttarkhand.

“The Odisha police told us that the password of Ibrahim’s Facebook account and gmail had been reset from Dehradun and a special team is  currently in that city to find him, ” he added.

The police had earlier traced Ibrahim’s cellphone calls to Allahabad and Mughalsarai. Although two separate teams camped at both  these places for nearly two weeks, they  made no headway in finding him

The family is bewildered by his disappearance as it has not received a ransom call either.

IBM  sources say Ibrahim had inspected as many as 25  iron ore, manganese and pyrophyllite mines located in Barbil in Keonjhar, Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj where the illegal mining lobby is powerful,  between March and November this year.

Of them seven were found to be violating the Mines and Mineral Development (Regulation) Act and Mineral Concession Rules. 

Two of the mines were served show cause notices to explain the violations they had committed, sources add.