HT Correspondent
MARGHERITA, Nov 21: A 14-year-old minor girl, a resident of No 1 Maulang village under Ledo Police Outpost in the Margherita co-district, has been missing for the past 20 days.
The girl was reportedly taken to Maruwa village in Namsai District, Arunachal Pradesh, by a woman named Purnima Munglung.
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The woman had convinced the family to let her take Arati Munda, promising to provide education and care.
On November 1, the family was informed that Arati had gone missing from Namsai on October 30.
The distressed family immediately traveled to Namsai to search for her but failed to locate her, and they subsequently filed a missing persons report.
Etuwa Munda, father of the missing minor girl, Arati Munda, said that Purnima Munglung gave him Rs 2,000 as she took his daughter Arati Munda to Namsai district, Arunachal Pradesh.
The woman who took Arati informed the family that she had also lodged a complaint at the Chowkham Police Station in Arunachal Pradesh.
However, when asked to provide a certified copy of the report, Purnima Munglung could not do so, raising the family’s suspicions, and till now, Purnima Munglung’s phone has been switched off.
The family suspects that the girl may have been trafficked.
Meanwhile, the family has also filed a report at the Ledo Police Outpost under Margherita co-district, but till now, no clues have been found.
When this correspondent contacted officials of Margherita co-district, they informed that they would look into this matter very seriously.
