An army jawan here has been reported missing for over a month now and neither his family nor the defence and police personnel know of his whereabouts, police said today. On May 8, Gavara Srinivasa Rao left here for Jalandhar in Punjab to join duty after a transfer from Roorkee in Uttarakhand, they said.

He got off the train in Panipat in Haryana and called up his wife G Yagna Priya to say that he hadlost his wallet and mobile phone, the police said. Rao had used someone's mobile phone to contact her and had said he would contact her after reporting for duty, they said.