A navy officer, who had gone missing from Chennai and was later found badly burnt in a forested stretch in Palghar district, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Suraj Kumar Dubey, 26, was returning to his headquarters after a holiday at his hometown in Jharkhand, when he went missing. The Palghar police have registered a case against unknown persons for murder.

Dubey had started his return journey from Palamu village, Jharkhand district, on January 30. The same day, around 4 pm, he took a flight from Ranchi to Hyderabad. He called his family from Hyderabad and since then, had been untraceable. His family filed a missing person’s complaint.