Hopes of tracing kidnapped Mumbai woman dashed

CHANDIGARH: Hopes of the Chandigarh police to trace the kidnapped Mumbai woman, Pushpa, through her recently activated email ID and Facebook account were dashed when cops learnt that her husband Parbhakar Singh was operating her ID and account in Mumbai.
A team of Chandigarh police, which was dispatched to Mumbai after learning about the activation of the woman’s Facebook account and mail ID, returned empty-handed from Mumbai.The team that was headed by sub-inspector (SI) Rajeev Kumar returned on April 17.
Pushpa Singh was allegedly kidnapped from Chandigarh in January, 2011 and since then she has been untraceable. Police sources said Parbhakar told police personnel that he had operated the mail ID and facebook account of his wife as he was unaware that these accounts were under the surveillance of the police.
Though the city police had arrested two suspects, Shyam Sood and Mohammed Farooq Khan, in this regard, they failed to trace the girl following their interrogation and disclosure statements. Police also found that the accused had arranged a room for the girl in Jimmy International Hotel in Sector 22 and one of the suspects, Farooq Khan, reportedly confessed that he had an altercation with the girl, following which he had destroyed her cell phone.
However, when the Chandigarh police failed to trace the girl, the husband of the victim, Parbhakar Singh, approached Punjab and Haryana high court following which a special investigation team (SIT) under the supervision of SP Rajinder Singh Ghumman was formed to trace the girl.A case of kidnapping was registered at the police station in Sector 17.