CBI fails to track missing sisters, parents move HC

14 May 2012

biswabrata goswami
TAMLUK, 14 MAY: The CBI has yet to find three sisters who went missing more than five years ago. Their parents have moved Calcutta High Court for second time recently, to no avail.
Sabina Yasmin (17), Mousam Begam (15) and Meherjan Khatun (12) disappeared after they went to Kolaghat market in East Midnapore to do some household shopping on 11 November 2006. Their father, Mr Sheikh Marup Hossain, lodged a missing diary with the Kolaghat police the next day, but police failed to trace the victims even after 18 months.
"I suspected a few persons who could have abducted my daughters, but the police deliberately exonerated the suspected accused from the charges," Mr Hossain said. Later, Mr Hossain filed a case in Calcutta High Court, and Justice Mr Dipankar Dutta instructed the CBI to investigate the matter on 3 June 2008.
The CBI submitted a report in November 2009 before the High Court, admitting it had failed to recover the missing girls. But Mr Hossain insists that the CBI officials did not carry out any investigation into the matter before submitting their report.
Still, Mr Hossain did not lose hope. He filed a petition on 19 March before the High Court, urging the recovery of his girls. After hearing pleas, Justice Mr Ashok Kumar Das Adhikari admonished the CBI for failing to find the girls.
Mr Das Adhikari remarked that, if the agency had fulfilled its responsibility, the girls could have been recovered in no time. He asked the CBI to investigate the matter again afresh, and submit a report before the court within four months.
Mr Mamud Hossain, the saha-sabhadhipati of the zilla-parishad, said: "We have already written letters to the SP, the DGP and the home secretary, urging them to take action so that these three girls are recovered soon. I have also noticed them about the growing network of human trafficking racketeers in the district."