Police say Sanjay Dixit, 50, of Rakhi Nevada in the Jansa area remains missing after he dived into the Varuna river at Isipur in the Baragaon belt on Friday evening, 18 September 2026, to save three teenagers who got into trouble during a Ganesh idol immersion. The teenagers were pulled out. Baragaon and Jansa police, with the fire brigade, continued a search.
Dixit had installed a Ganesh idol at home and was among those at the immersion when the three village teenagers struggled in the water. He jumped. The teens were rescued. He went into deeper water and was not accounted for when early Saturday reports closed. Preferring “three teenagers” over naming minors keeps the civic focus on the rescue and the continuing search.
Immersion evenings on the Varuna often draw families to shallow banks that can drop without warning after monsoon silt shifts. A rescuer who reaches the teens and then loses footing is a pattern river stations know too well. Fire-brigade boats and police teams searching overnight are the operational stamp, not a finished recovery bulletin.
Baragaon and Jansa stations share the belt around Isipur. Joint deployment with the fire brigade signals that the river stretch is being treated as an active missing-person search. No officer has declared the search closed. Readers should ignore rumour that invents a recovered body before police say so.
Rakhi Nevada sits in the Jansa area; Isipur’s immersion point sits on the Varuna inside the Baragaon belt. That geography explains why both stations are named on the search. The news is a 50-year-old man still unaccounted for after three teenagers were pulled clear.
Families who wait on a riverbank after dark hear every rumour twice. Until Baragaon, Jansa or the fire brigade announce a change in status, the accurate line remains: teens rescued, Dixit missing, search continuing.
For Isipur’s riverbank on Friday night, the stamp is three teenagers saved and one rescuer missing. For Baragaon and Jansa, the next hours sit in continued search with the fire brigade.
Search lights on a monsoon river after immersion rarely bring quick answers. Currents shift, clay banks crumble, and rumour runs faster than boats. Early Saturday reports still listed Sanjay Dixit as missing after the three teenagers were pulled out at Isipur. Until that status changes on an official line from Baragaon, Jansa or the fire brigade, “missing” and “search ongoing” remain the only honest closing words.
