Cops continue search for missing father

NEWDELHI: The Delhi police are yet to trace the father of the three minor girls from east Delhi’s Mandawali who allegedly died due to starvation on Tuesday.

The deaths of the three children, who according to two autopsy reports died due to starvation, has rattled the collective conscience of residents in the national Capital. Police said there is no trace of their father, who works as a rickshaw puller and a labourer.

An enquiry by the sub-divisional magistrate has revealed that the eldest daughter, an 8-year-old had ₹1,805 in her bank account at the time of her death. Police said they are probing if the girl’s father has made any transaction in the past four days. The sub-divisional magistrate report has also raised suspicion over some unknown medicine that the man had fed his three daughters on Monday night, just hours before all of them died.

Deputy commissioner of police (east) Pankaj Kumar Singh said, “Four teams of twenty police personnel are looking for the father – Mangal Singh. He has been missing since Tuesday morning. By Friday, the police teams had already questioned more than 100 suspects from the area, mostly rickshaw pullers and labourers, who knew Mangal Singh or had seen him working till Monday, a day before he went missing.”

“So far we do not suspect any foul play behind their deaths. Since the mother has not been able to tell police much about her daughters or husband, our focus is to find the missing man,” Singh said.