CUTTACK: In an unfortunate incident, a Jawan of Indian Army died during parachute practice conducted by Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia under Choudwar police station in Cuttack district on Saturday.
The 39-year-old Jawan has been identified as Tasi Dawa of Mysore in Karnataka.As per reports, Dawa went missing on Saturday evening while he along with others was engaged in parachute landing practice at Sandha Padia, an open ground, under Mangarajpur gram panchayat.
Personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), ARC and INS Chilka, who launched a search operation, found Dawa’s helmet and a pair of parachutes near Haripur Dam, about 3 km from Sandha Padia. After a thorough search in the dam with the help of scuba divers, Dawa’s body was retrieved on Sunday afternoon.
Later, acting on an FIR filed by Deputy Director, ARC, Charbatia HP Sahu, Choudwar police seized the body and sent it to SCB. Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem.
Preliminary police investigation revealed that Dawa had jumped out of the airplane during training but his parachute did not open leading to his death as he fell inside the dam having water to its capacity.