Six days after the pilot and co-pilot of a Dhruv helicopter, belonging to the Mamun cantonment-based Army aviation unit, went missing after it crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam lake, Navy divers have yet to come up with any substantial findings relating to the missing persons or wreckage.
The Army has taken the search operation in its hands and is not allowing anybody near the lake. The media, too, has been kept out of bounds. Even employees of the dam are not being allowed in the vicinity of the lake. Lt Col SS Bhatt and Capt Jayant Joshi have been missing since August 3, even as joint teams of the Army and Navy continue to look for the pilots and wreckage area.
