A Worli resident filed complaint for wife and 5 daughters who went 'missing'; realised they had run away when they told cops at police station that they were happy and asked them not to look for them
A Worli resident filed complaint for wife and 5 daughters who went 'missing'; realised they had run away when they told cops at police station that they were happy and asked them not to look for them
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When Ramanand Yadav woke up on the morning of July 15, an unpleasant surprise greeted him.
His family wife and five daughters were missing. Despite a frantic search across states and a police complaint over the next three days, they are yet to be located.
But cops cannot come to the succour of a distraught Yadav. For, the family he thought went missing has actually run away from him.
Yadav (48), a resident of Worli, is a mason by profession.
According to the police, over the past several months, he had been telling his wife, Shanti Devi (38) and daughters Laxmi (21), Meera (19), Anuradha (16), Sharda (14) and Gayatri (7) of his desire to settle in his native place, Balrampur district in Uttar Pradesh.
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He also told them that he had booked a railway ticket for July 23 to go to Balrampur and to arrange the marriage of Laxmi, his eldest child. But his family members did not relish the idea.u00a0
Papa don't preach!
On that fateful morning, after he discovered his family had vanished, Yadav stumbled upon a note. Written by Laxmi, it read, "Papa, don't get angry or worried.
It is better to go elsewhere than to settle in UP or Mumbai."
A disaffected Yadav enquired of Laxmi's friends about her whereabouts, only to find that she had sent one of them a text message saying she was going to Haridwar with her family. So he rushed to the holy place but did not find them.
He then recalled that his wife was a devotee of Asaram Bapu. So off he went scouring several of the godman's ashrams in Gujarat and Maharashtra. But his one-man search yielded no result.
Disappointed, Yadav returned to Mumbai on July 18, culminating his three-day search operations by registering missing person's complaints for all the six members with the Worli police.
The police had been unable to trace them until August 4, when things got a tad awkward for Yadav. The police told him that his family showed up at the Worli police station of their own accord.
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They told the officials that they were safe and happy and that the cops shouldn't look for them. They said they were living in a rented house but did not reveal their location.
Though he is relieved, the tragedy hasn't ended for Yadav. When he heard that his family approached the cops and chose not to disclose their hideout, he said, "I am happy that my family came to the police station.
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But they did not tell the police their hideout. They said they have hired a room somewhere. I am trying to locate them."
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