Srinagar: One more youth from Hardu Dalwan area of Charar-i-shareef in central Kashmir’s Budgam district has gone missing, reports and officials said on Tuesday.

Reports said that Adil Ahmad Ganie (24) son of Gulzar Ahmad Ganie of Hardu Dalwan has been missing on Friday last.

The family members of the missing youth have filed a missing report in police station Charar-i-shareef yesterday.

A police officer confirmed the incident. “We have registered a case and started investigations into it,” he said. Asked whether investigation looks into the possibility of him joining the militant ranks, the officer responded in affirmative.

Pertinently, Azad Ahmad Dar son of Masood Dar from Dalwan has gone missing from Tuesday last, a day after a gunfight took place in the Hapatnar area of the central Kashmir district in which three Al-Badr militants were killed.

His family had also submitted a missing report with the local police. (GNS)