No trace of 19-year-old missing from Metro stn

Ten days after 19-yearold speech impaired Sunita went missing from Adarsh Nagar Metro station, the Delhi Metro police are yet to file an FIR or trace the woman.

Though a daily dairy (DD) entry, an official record, was made at the Kashmere Gate Metro police station, police are yet to register an FIR.

Jitendramani Tripathi, deputy commissioner of police (Metro), said that the missing person was an adult and the complaint filed by her family did not say that she was kidnapped.

“Had the woman been below 18 years of age, we would have certainly converted her missing complaint into a case of kidnapping,” said Tripathi adding that different police teams are trying to trace the young woman.

A senior Delhi Metro police officer on the condition of anonymity said that the incident could have been averted had the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who are entrusted with security on Metro premises, or Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) staff of the Adarsh Nagar station reacted after seeing Sunita attempting to exit through one of the automated fare collection (AFC) gates.

Sunita’s father Ram Saran alleged that no security alarm was raised and no security or Metro staff stopped his daughter when she made four failed attempts to exit through the AFC gate. “Everything was being captured on the camera but nobody reacted,” he said.