Calcutta, July 2 :     Captain Saptarshi Dhar went missing the day he became an uncle. On January 12, in the pleasant climes of a wintry Calcutta, his sister delivered a baby. Thousands of miles north, on a cold and frosty frontier, the young Captain was leading a patrol against heavy odds: snipers were picking out his men and the snow above was threatening to roar down in an avalanche. No one knows what got the captain first, the snow or the enemy bullets. His body was found on July 1, more than six months later, as the the snows along the heights of Kargil began to melt. It will be flown to Siliguri on Monday, headquarters of his unit, the 4/8 Gorkha Rifles. Like Captain Kanad Bhattacharya, who died at the height of the Kargil war, Captain Saptarshi Dhar is from Calcutta. In the Dhar family's tidy bungalow in Dum Dum Park, neighbours, friends and relatives of the family stream in. The silence hangs heavy, occasionally pierced by a wail as someone recalls a meeting with the 25-year-old lad. Even in her grief, Aditi Dhar, Saptarshi's mother, does not lose her rationale. 'When will this mindless fighting stop? Why don't the Pakistanis and the rest of the world realise that Kashmir is a part of our country?' For six months, the family has been praying, hoping, of happy news from their boy. 'I was hoping for a miracle... I am proud of my son. He went down fighting for his country,'' Aditi sobs. In a few hours she will leave for Siliguri with daughter, Sujoyita. Their nerves have been steeled by generations of ties with the armed forces. Saptarshi's father, Samarjit Dhar, retired as Group Captain in the Air Force. His grandfather, who died earlier this year, was a Colonel. An uncle is a serving Major. The sketchy reports from the Northern Command headquarters of the army in Udhampur, Kashmir, say Dhar was leading a patrol of seven that day. Their objective was to capture a height, a vantage point, above the Gurez Valley. A Northern Command officer said the height did not have a name 'but it is the origin of the Kishen Ganga river,' about 160 km from Srinagar. The patrol was prepared to repulse an enemy attack on the way to the objective. No one apparently has lived to tell the story of what exactly happened. The patrol did not return to base camp at Trishul. After a search proved futile, it was presumed that they were trapped in an avalanche in the night. The body of Captain Dhar, suspected to be missing in action, was found on Saturday near Barope village, the only settlement near that stretch of the Line of Control. Army officers at the Eastern Command headquarters in Fort William said on Sunday that the body will reach Siliguri by an Indian Airlines flight. A students of Central Schools, Saptarshi graduated from the National Defence Academy in 1994. He belonged to the Ordnance wing and was on deputation to the Gorkha Rifles' unit in Kashmir since 1998. 'I am a patriot. I want to die fighting. My goal is to be the king,'' Saptarshi wrote in his personal diary, which the army delivered to his family. His grandmother, Deepti, recalled how gutsy Saptarshi was. 'He was highly motivated by army life and from his school days, had a strong desire to be a soldier,'' she said. The family called him Tojo, after a legendary Yugoslav general. Saptarshi last visited Calcutta on furlough in August 1999. The Northern Command described him as a good soldier who led from the front. The chief of staff, Eastern Command, Lt.-Gen. Satish Chopra, said Saptarshi will be cremated with full military honours.