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Jaipur, Sep 4 (IANS) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Naveen Jain, who had gone missing from a restaurant in Rajasthan?s Alwar district earlier this week, was Sunday traced to Chandigarh from where he contacted his family here, an official said Sunday.

Jain has now left for Narwana, his native place in Haryana?s Jind district and is likely to return to Jaipur Monday.

?The officer was staying at his friend?s place in Chandigarh. In his telephone call to his wife Sunita at around 4 p.m., he had disclosed his location. He told Sunita that he was leaving for Narwana,? a police officer told IANS.

Sunita, along with her sister, have also left for Narwana.

“Jain also assured Sunita that he was safe. He enquired about her health,” the officer said.

Sunita had Saturday been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital here after she took ill.

Hospital authorities said Sunita was not having food properly since his disappearance and is suffering from acute anxiety.

Jain, 36, was posted as commissioner in the state?s settlement department in Jaipur.

According to police, Jain had gone to a restaurant in Shahajanpur, some 150 km from here, along with his wife and son for breakfast Aug 30, and disappeared.

“While they were having food, Jain got up from the table on the pretext of making a call and walked out,” said Additional Superintendent of Police Sangram Singh.

Jain then left a note in their car parked outside.

“In the note, he repented that he had not been able to provide a house to his family. He said that he was going somewhere and should not be disturbed,” said the officer.

Sources said Jain was transferred to Jaipur in the first week of August from Baran, where he was posted as district collector.

Sunita earlier claimed that he was depressed because of the controversy over allotment of an official residence to him.

“He was depressed after it was alleged that he had taken possession of a government bungalow in Jaipur illegally. The truth is he had got verbal approval to move into the house and the process of written approval was being done,” she told reporters.

Jain had also been district collector in Hanumangarh, Karauli and Rajsamand districts of Rajasthan.