Fifty four (54) missing
defence personnel of 1965 and 1971 Wars (including one from Border Security
Force) are believed to be in custody in Pakistan. A list of such personnel is
as under:-
|
S. No.
|
Rank
& Name
|
|
1.
|
Major
SPS Waraich
|
|
2.
|
Major
Kanwaljit Singh
|
|
3.
|
Major
Jaskiran Singh Malik
|
|
4.
|
Captain
Kalyan Singh Rathod
|
|
5.
|
Captain
Giriraj Singh
|
|
6.
|
2/Lt
Sudhir Mohan Sabharwal
|
|
7.
|
Captain
Kamal Bakshi
|
|
8.
|
2/Lt
Paras Ram Sharma
|
|
9.
|
Major
S.C. Gulari
|
|
10.
|
Major
A.K. Ghosh
|
|
11.
|
Major
A.K. Suri
|
|
12.
|
Sq. Ldr
Mohinder Kumar Jain
|
|
13.
|
Flt Lt
Sudhir Kumar Goswami
|
|
14.
|
Lt Cdr
Ashok Roy
|
|
15.
|
Flt Lt
Harvinder Singh
|
|
16.
|
Fg
Officer Sudhir Tyagi
|
|
17.
|
Flt Lt
Vijay Vasant Tambay
|
|
18.
|
Flt Lt
Ilyoo Moses Sassoon
|
|
19.
|
Flt Lt
Ram Metharam Advani
|
|
20.
|
Flt Lt
Nagaswami Shanker
|
|
21.
|
Flt Lt
Suresh Chander Sandal
|
|
22.
|
Flt Lt
Kushalpal Singh Nanda
|
|
23.
|
Wg. Cdr
Horsern Singh Gill
|
|
24.
|
Flt Lt
Tanmaya Singh Dandass
|
|
25.
|
Captain
Ravindra Kaura
|
|
26.
|
Sq Ldr
Jal Miniksha Mistry
|
|
27.
|
Flt Lt
Ramesh Gulabrao Kadam
|
|
28.
|
Flg
Officer Krishan Lakima J Malkani
|
|
29.
|
Flt Lt
Babul Guha
|
|
30.
|
L/Naik
Hazoora Singh
|
|
31.
|
Sq Ldr
Jatinder Das Kumar
|
|
32.
|
Flt Lt
Gurdev Singh Rai
|
|
33.
|
Flt Lt
Ashok Balwant Dhawale
|
|
34.
|
Flt Lt
Shrikant Chandrakant Mahajan
|
|
35.
|
Flt Lt
Kottiezath Puthiyavettil Murlidharan
|
|
36.
|
Captain
Vashist Nath
|
|
37.
|
L/Nk
Jagdish Raj
|
|
38.
|
Sep
Madan Mohan
|
|
39.
|
Sep Pal
Singh
|
|
40.
|
Sep
Daler Singh
|
|
41.
|
Lt
Vijay Kumar Azad
|
|
42.
|
Sujan
Singh
|
|
43.
|
Gunner
Shyam Singh
|
|
44.
|
Sep
Gian Chand
|
|
45.
|
Sep
Jagir Singh
|
|
46.
|
Subedar
Kali Das
|
|
47.
|
Flt Lt
Manohar Purohit
|
|
48.
|
Pilot
Officer Tejinder Singh Sethi
|
|
49.
|
L/Naik Balbir
Singh
|
|
50.
|
Sqn Ldr
Devaprashad Chatterjee
|
|
51.
|
L/Hav
Krishan Lal Sharma
|
|
52.
|
Sub
Assa Singh
|
|
53.
|
Capt
OP Dalal
|
|
54.
|
SBS
Chauhan.
|
The Government has
repeatedly been taking up the matter with the Pakistan Government. However,
Pakistan does not acknowledge the presence of any such personnel in its
custody. A delegation of 14 relatives of missing defence personnel also
visited 10 Jails in Pakistan during 1-14 June, 2007. The delegation, however,
could not conclusively confirm the physical presence of any missing defence
personnel.
Hon’ble High Court of
Gujarat vide their judgement dated 23.12.2011 passed an order, interalia,
regarding payment of service and retirement benefits to the next of kin of the
missing defence personnel believed to be in the custody in Pakistan, as if they
retired on superannuation. The order of the Hon’ble Court has been accepted by
the Government and necessary action has been taken towards compliance of the
ibid judgement.
This information was given by Defence
Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Laxman Giluwa and Shri Chandrakant Khaire in Lok Sabha today.
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