Surajkumar Dubey, who had joined Indian Navy in August 2012, was posted at INS Agrani in Coimbatore
MUMBAI: A 26-year-old naval sailor who went missing while on his way to his Coimbatore base after a holiday at his village in Jharkhand, was found in a jungle in Palghar on Friday morning with 90% burn injuries. He succumbed to the injuries the same night at Sion Hospital.
In his dying declaration to the Gholvad police, Leading Seaman Surajkumar Dubey said he was abducted by 3 unknown men outside Chennai airport at 11pm on January 30 in a white SUV, said API Sarjerao Kumbhar. The armed men allegedly demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh from him and kept him captive for three days at an unknown place in Chennai. When he still refused to pay up, they brought him by road to Vaiji-Veljipada jungle in Gholvad, Palghar, and set him ablaze with petrol on Friday.