Missing Jammu girl’s parents seek Bihar police help

PATNA : More than four months after a 17-year-old girl went missing from her school in Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra, the Bihar police and their counterparts from the northern state have failed to either locate her or nab her ‘abductors’.

The Katra police suspect a 27-year-old man, Naemuddin Ansari who worked as a carpenter in the same school, kidnapped the Class 12 student with the help of his flatmates, in their

late 20s, from Bihar. Ansari is a resident of Ganeshpur Baisakhwa village in Sikta block of Bettiah in West Champaran district of Bihar.

The girl’s parents on Saturday met West Champaran SP Jayant Kant and sought his help in tracing her. This was their second visit to Bihar in a month. Earlier, her family, accompanied by a team of Katra police, visited Ansari’s village last month. The police team, led by sub-inspector of Katra police station Mohammad Ashiq Ali, had then failed to locate him as villagers claimed that his family had moved to Nepal.

Jogider Paul, the girl’s brother, said his family was concerned about her when she did not return from school on July 24. The family unsuccessfully tried searching for her. “The school CCTV footage showed Ansari talking to my sister,” he said.

“We feel that local villagers are not cooperating with the police. We have been running around for the past five months, but nothing has happened.

We are having all kinds of apprehensions. We are still clueless while the suspects are absconding,” said Paul.