An assistant sub-inspector of police posted at Jaigaon police station of Alipurduar district has gone missing since Wednesday noon.
Police have launched a search to trace ASI Ratan Kar.
Sources said that Kar, the ASI posted in the traffic wing of the police station, had left the bordering town of Jaigaon around 12pm on Wednesday on a two-wheeler.
He was supposed to reach the checkpoint raised by the police on Asian Highway 48 at Hasimara, but did not.
Worried police officers later on Wednesday evening inspected the CCTV camera footage available along the route and came to know that Kar had crossed Dalsinghpara, around 6km away from Jaigaon, but then had gone missing.
The police officer hails from Dinhata of neighbouring Cooch Behar district.
“We contacted his family members but they also have no clue about his whereabouts. We are also trying to find his two-wheeler,” said an officer of Jaigaon police station.
Senior police officers are perturbed about Kar’s disappearance.
“It is indeed surprising that a police officer went missing while being on duty. The traffic DSP traffic has been instructed to probe the incident and find the officer,” said Bholanath Pandey, Alipurduar superintendent of police.