Dhangadhi. The Indian side has claimed that SSB was not involved in the incident where a youth fell into the Mahakali River and disappeared.

Ananda Swaroop, district officer of Pithoragarh, India, sent a letter to Darchula Chief District Officer Siddharaj Joshi on Saturday, claiming that the SSB was not involved.

“Based on our correspondence on Friday, the district officer of Pithoragarh has sent a written reply today,” Darchula Chief District Officer Joshi told media. SSB is not involved as it came out. That is not our intention. “

Chief District Officer Joshi said that it was true that the Indian side was on duty in the SSB Malghat area at the time of the incident.

“Our SSB team went there on duty,” Joshi said, referring to the letter, “but they have no involvement in the incident.”

After the incident, India has deployed a team of SSB in the Mahakali River to assist the Nepali side in the search for the youth. Joshi has already sent the letter sent by the District Officer of Pithoragarh to the Home Ministry on Saturday.

On Friday morning, Jaisingh Dhami, the resident of the same village, went missing after falling into the river while crossing the river at Malghat in Vyas Gaonpalika-2 on his way to Khalanga from Indian soil.

The local administration had written to the Indian SDM office on Friday asking for help in investigating the incident after eyewitnesses said that Tuin(Like rope way) had gone missing after falling into the river after the Indian SSB pulled his rope.

Even Kalyan Singh Dhami, who said that he had crossed the river by keeping Jaisingh in Tuin, said that he fell into the river after the SSB pulled out a rope tied to a tree. The condition of Dhami who fell into the river on Friday morning is still unknown.

A team from the District Police Office, Armed Police Battalion No. 44 Battalion and National Investigation District Office has been mobilized to search for him, according to the District Administration Office. The Home Ministry on Friday formed a team to investigate the incident.