“The information with the photo of the woman has already been sent to all the stations in the route,” GRP officials said.
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A housewife of Jhuripara in Dinhata in Cooch Behar district was allegedly abducted from the Down-Brahmaputra Mail yesterday morning when the train reached Barhaora station in Bihar. The family members of the woman reached Malda Town station last night and filed a complaint with the GRP. The incident yet again raised questions on the security of passengers travelling in trains.
The missing housewife has been identified as Nilima Roy Barman, who was traveling with her husband Raju and her five-year-old son Mayank. Mr Roy Barman is a well-known trader in Dinhata who has his business outlets in Bahadurgarh in Haryana, where they were going to by the train.
“The family boarded the train from the Dhupguri station on Sunday night in an AC two-tier compartment. The man woke up hearing the cry of her wife, but could not find her in the coach they had been traveling in. The family members started looking for her, but they could not find her, so all of them came down from the train. The husband of the missing woman then reached Malda late at night from Jamalpur station after a rigorous search for his wife and filed a complaint with the GRP,” sources said.
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“She had gold jewellery with her, so it is possible that some miscreants, in an attempt to snatch those, abducted her. She left her handbag and her mobile phone in the train,” Mr Roy Barman said.
However, the rail police meanwhile said that a theory of the woman having an extra-marital affair and eloping with her partner early morning from Barharoa cannot be ruled out.
“The information with the photo of the woman has already been sent to all the stations in the route,” GRP officials said.
IC, GRP Malda, Bhaskar Pradhan, said they have started investigations.
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