Palamau MP V.D. Ram wrote to Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh on Sunday seeking a CBI probe into the mysterious abduction and killing of a naval officer from Jharkhand while he was returning to duty from his home in Palamau.

The 26-year-old naval officer, Suraj Kumar Dubey, a resident of Purabdiha village in Chainpur block of Palamau, was reportedly abducted by three unidentified assailants who set Dubey ablaze after failing to get a ransom of Rs10 lakh from his family, police have found prima facie.

He died at a Maharastra hospital on Saturday.

The Telegraph Online has a copy of both the letters addressed by the local MP to Union home minister Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh.

“I have requested home minister Amit Shah for a CBI inquiry into the murder of Navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey since this case is a fit case for a CBI probe,” said Ram, adding that the incident was murky and mysterious.

In the letters, Ram wrote that Dubey was kidnapped around 11pm on January 30 from Chennai airport by three unknown people who whisked him away in an SUV.

Ram stated Dubey was found in “semi-conscious state” at Vaiiji Veljipada forest in Gholvad Palghar Maharashtra on Saturday. The sailor succumbed to 90 per cent burn injuries while on way to the Sion/ INHS Ashwini hospital in Maharashtra where he was declared dead.

A former DGP of Jharkhand V.D. Ram has raised pertinent questions in regard to the design and motive behind this gruesome crime where he reiterated the utter failure of Maharashtra police which could not find Dubey until some civilians brought this case of 90 per cent burns to the notice of the Palghar police.

He has written that it baffles most that the killers of Dubey travelled 1,500km from Chennai in Tamil Nadu to Palghar in Maharashtra to dispose of the body in the forest of Vaiiji Veljipada Gholvad Palghar in Maharashtra. It is the same place (Palghar) where sadhus were lynched last year.

Mithilesh Kumar Dubey, father of the deceased navy sailor, submitted a written complaint to the Chainpur police on February 1 stating that his son, after availing of one month leave, had left for the INS Agrani unit in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on January 30 itself. But his cell phone was found switched off from 6.46pm on January 30, Ram wrote in the letter.

Officer in charge of the Chainpur police station Uday Kumar Gupta said, “We registered this complaint as ‘Sanha’ and made a proper entry in our police station diary dated February 1.”