Archive · 18 Aug 2026
Police Search Fails To Locate Missing Army Jawan
Pagadala Ravi is an Army worker from Nellore district who has gone missing.
He was traveling home while on leave before starting a new posting.
On July 19, he called his wife from Dimapur Railway Station.
After that, his phone was turned off.
Police believe his last phone signal came from Bhadrak.
A special team searched railway stations from Bhadrak to Kharagpur.
They also checked information about unidentified bodies and accidents.
The team did not find Ravi and is returning to Nellore to continue the investigation.
A special Nellore Police team found no clue about missing Army jawan Pagadala Ravi.
The team searched railway stations between Bhadrak and Kharagpur in Odisha.
Officers checked records involving unidentified bodies and accident victims and displayed missing-person posters.
Ravi’s last phone signal was traced to Bhadrak, but searches there produced no breakthrough.
Ravi told his wife on July 19 that he was traveling home from Dimapur; his phone has been switched off since.
- Who
- Pagadala Ravi, a 38-year-old Army safaiwala from Thotalacheruvupalli village in Nellore district, is missing.
- What
- A special police team searched for Ravi but failed to determine his whereabouts.
- When
- Ravi last contacted his wife on July 19; the police search team is now returning to Nellore.
- Where
- The search covered Bhadrak and railway stations along the route to Kharagpur in Odisha; Ravi was last known to have called from Dimapur Railway Station in Nagaland.
- Why
- Police searched the area because Ravi’s last mobile-phone signal was traced to Bhadrak.
- Missing person
- Pagadala Ravi
- Age
- 38
- Home village
- Thotalacheruvupalli, Varikuntapadu mandal, Nellore district
- Army posting
- He had been serving as a safaiwala in Tengnoupal district of Manipur and was recently transferred to Jammu and Kashmir.
- Last contact
- Ravi told his wife on July 19 that he was traveling home from Dimapur Railway Station.
- Last phone signal
- Bhadrak
- Search route
- Railway stations across nearly 200 km between Bhadrak and Kharagpur in Odisha