Hyderabad, June 19 -- Eitan Gilboa, the Israeli reservist whom the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) asked Indian authorities to arrest in May this year, may have already left the country.

Natacha Bracq, the Belgium-based organisation's litigation head, told Scroll.in that Gilboa likely departed India after their complaint became public, adding that in several other countries, the Israeli Embassy had intervened to get soldiers out soon after HRF filed complaints against them.

HRF had approached the Himachal Pradesh Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration on May 30, alleging that Gilboa - a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) 271st Combat Engineering Battalion - had participated in the destruction of civili...