Six days after her alleged kidnapping there has been no trace of Benazeer, a Banzara tribe woman. The fact that she is pregnant and needs care has turned her husband Aslam almost speechless.
Holding his two-year-old son on the shoulder he had been looking for his lost wife like a mad person hoping to find her some where since the past five days.
What is most shocking in this case is the fact that she was kidnapped in a most daring manner from near the official residence of DIG range Akhilesh Mehrotra and DIG (Personnel) Jawahar Lal Tripathi posted at the PHQ on Thornhill Road in the intervening night on March 16/17.
She was allegedly taken away in a Maruti van by atleast five men. Her husband Aslam was sleeping along with her and their two-year-old son on one side of the tent under a canopy. Aslam's two sisters and a brother-in-law were sleeping inside the tent when the incident took place.
Aslam who sells herbal medicines on roadsides had pitched the camp on this road near the AG's office a couple of days ago before the incident took place. On their part, till now, Civil Lines police appears to be groping in the dark over this daring kidnapping which has surpassed all crime records in the city.
{{/usCountry}}Aslam who sells herbal medicines on roadsides had pitched the camp on this road near the AG's office a couple of days ago before the incident took place. On their part, till now, Civil Lines police appears to be groping in the dark over this daring kidnapping which has surpassed all crime records in the city.
{{/usCountry}}Initially, for two days cops kept countering the kidnapping theory by saying she must have eloped with someone. However, later, they even lodged a case of kidnapping. But this seems to be just on the papers. Even for the Press, they are still parroting the possibility of elopement. However, people of the area are not ready to digest what cops are saying.
How can a woman having spent hardly 72 hours in the city after coming here from Ranchi develop fancy for another man to the extent of running away with him leaving her two-year-old son behind, is what people of the area argue.
The same argument is corroborated by Aslam who says his wife had no contacts with any person in this city where they had come for the first time. Talking to HT Allahabad Live in an exclusive meeting, he said, he was sure that his wife's argument with some persons a day before the incident was the cause behind this kidnapping.
We all had no idea that such a thing would happen, said Aslam while clinging to his son who refuses to be with any other person. " With his lips parched, he said, he felt lost in this land". The money which we had is also disappearing fast.
Who will feed us here and for how long as earning through his trade was impossible under the present circumstances, he feels.