Ludhiana cops reunite missing child, women with kin

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 5

Besides catching drug peddlers and notorious elements, the Ludhiana police have another face of humanity too.

Special initiative

The newly appointed Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police-1, Pragya Jain (IPS), took personal interest in cases pertaining to missing elderly persons and children.

The newly appointed Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police 1 Pragya Jain (IPS) took personal interest in cases pertaining to missing elderly persons and children.

Three such cases of a missing child, a woman and an elderly woman were reported in the past few days in which the police took immediate action to trace and reunite persons with their family.

The ADCP said on January 31, the police received a complaint from Paramjeet Kaur that her daughter Kawaljeet Kaur, alias Aman, was married to Toni, alias Sonu, of Bazigar Basti since six years. She left the house on Sunday after some dispute with her husband and mother-in-law.

The next day, after getting information, the police checked the CCTV camera footage of the area and found the woman from the Bahadur Ke road, she said.

Kawaljeet was suffering from depression and was undergoing some treatment for the same. The woman handed was over to her mother amicably. The ADCP said the police would ensure that the woman did not face any further torture at the hands of her spouse or mother-in-law.

Talking about another case, Pragya said three-year-old Shivam of Atal Nagar, Rahon road, went missing on the morning of February 4. After receiving information, officials of the Jodhewal police station swung into action and recovered the girl from the Basti Jodhewal chowk.

The ADCP said the boy had gone to the ATM with his mother from where he went missing.

In the third case, 75-year-old Chander Kanta, wife of Jagjit Singh, and a resident of Sardar Nagar, Jodhewal, had gone missing on January 27 from her house. She is a retired principal and was being tortured mentally and physically by her son Monu due to which she left the house.

The woman stayed at gurdwaras and on railway tracks and roads for almost three days.

The ADCP said: “The woman had visited the office of Police Commissioner Rakesh Agrawal and later, the PC asked me to provide immediate help to the woman and reunite her with the family.”

The woman reached her office on January 30 and asked for help, adding that she was not only reunited with the family immediately but her son was also convinced to ensure care of his mother, to which he agreed.

“We will also follow-up the case to ensure that the victim is being taken care of by her family,” she said.

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