Digboi, Aug. 29 -- The unexplained disappearance of Class-I AOD contractor and business tycoon Putul Sarmah has entered its seventeenth day.

It has cast a shadow not only over his family but also hundreds of workers and multiple ongoing projects under the Indian Oil Corporation's Assam Oil Division (IOC-AOD).

Sarmah, a resident of Borbil No. 1 in Digboi, went missing on August 14 and has remained untraced ever since.

Despite sustained search operations, police have yet to make any breakthrough in the case.

A case has been registered at the Digboi Police Station (Case No. 130/25 U/S 140(3) BNS).

But the investigation has so far failed to provide any concrete clue about his whereabouts.

Family members fear that the incident may be lin...