Chhattisgarh daughter reunites with father after 24 years
Raipur | Correspondent: An elderly-father, residing in Jashpur district reported about the missing teenager daughter after 23-years of sending her to Delhi along with her relative.
The police registered the case and, 24 years later, found the woman in Delhi. During this period, she had forgotten the name of her village.
The teenager girl, resident of the Sendrimunda village was just five-year-old when her mother died due to some disease after which her drunkard father got remarried.
The stepmother mistreated her which was a major reason for the father to send his daughter along with her aunt who had once visited the village, said the senior superintendent of police of district Jashpur Shashi Mohan Singh.
Once during a visit of her aunt Rani in the village,saw Shalini (name changed) enduring hardship and requested permission from her brother to take her niece along. With her father’s approval, the teenager happily accompanied her aunt to Delhi.
Reaching Delhi, Shalini found employment as a babysitter in apartments, ensuring her financial stability and enabling her to move forward in life. Initially, she stayed in touch with her father through a villager’s phone number, but over time, communication waned until the father-daughter connection was lost.
In the year 2023, in the month of September the father filed a missing report about the 14-year-old daughter who later came out to be a 38-year-old woman.
Jashpur police on a mission reached the Capital city Delhi and initiated a search operation. Shalini was found living in a chaul, it was discovered that her aunt Rani had passed away due to cancer.
she was a babysitter, a working woman.
On asking about her marriage, she replied she did not get married as there was no one who could find a groom for her.
Despite facing few challenges in Delhi, Shalini received support from the families she worked for, allowing her to lead a relatively smooth life. She expressed her joy at being reunited with her father.
All this while, Shalini had forgotten a lot about the village as she was a teenager when she left.
Furthermore, she expressed her happiness on reuniting to her father, Singh added.
During Superintendent Shashi Mohan Singh’s tenure in Jashpur, the police achieved a significant milestone by reuniting 127 missing persons with their families within a span of 100 days.
This effort brought immense relief and happiness to numerous households across the region. The operation, led by a special team, focused on locating individuals who had been separated from their families for extended periods.
Among those found were 89 women, 14 men, 5 boys, and 19 girls.
To ensure thorough verification, police teams were dispatched to various districts within Chhattisgarh state, including Raigarh, Surguja, and Bilaspur, as well as to other states such as Jharkhand, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, and Maharashtra, officials added.
