kolkata the killer waves at car nicobar took several gifted officers scores of soldiers and the islands chief judicial magistrate among them to a watery grave add a brilliant auditor to that like justice sk joshi senior audit officer sujit narayan sit was overjoyed when he was posted to the andamans it gave him the chance to stay close to the sea so he invited his mother over too when he was deputed to car nicobar for a month it looked like some routine assignment sit was the head of one two groups sent there and would always start the day with his most favourite hobby a stroll by the sea he was on the beach with two members of his group when the waves appeared like a bolt out of the blue the others managed to cling on to trees but sit was didnt make it said a heartbroken family member at kolkata airport on thursday morning till yesterday evening we were under the impression that all members of the audit team were safe we were devastated when the team called from port blair to inform us that sit was only one who didnt return a tearyeyed colleague bharati ganguly told toi he was an officer of impeccable integrity and was respected by all colleagues his warmth and affable nature endeared him to one and all ganguly added his family in belur is in a state shock his two sons and wife jharna have been numbed into silence by news of his death on thursday morning sits septuagenarian mother arrived home from port blair she refuses to believe that her 52yearold son is no more sits colleagues have rallied by family in their moment of crisis have to make sure that his family gets their dues the service rules are little unclear about how a missing officers family gets their pension a batchmate said