The Hindu : Haryana Police team to trace missing girls

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Wednesday, Mar 03, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Haryana Police team to trace missing girls

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, MARCH 2. Two engineering students from Haryana, Ruchi Singh (20) and Mausam Duggal (20), who went missing from Ambala in 2002, are said to be in the city now. A team from Haryana Police is camping here to trace the girls.

I.P Singh, father of Ms. Ruchi Singh, had complained to the Haryana Crime Branch Police that a Christian priest from Himachal Pradesh used to meet the girls regularly in the guise of a "godman", according to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jagat Singh.

Before leaving Ambala, the girls had reportedly told their friends that they were going to Pune to work in a mission.

The Crime Branch team rushed to Pune, but the girls had left that city.

Later, Dr. Singh sought the Haryana High Court's intervention in the case. The court directed the police to rescue the girls and produce them before it.

Fifteen days ago, Ms. Ruchi Singh called her father from a telephone booth at Jaibharathnagar in the city.

The Haryana Crime Branch rushed to the city, but could not get much information from the booth operator.

The City Police Commissioner, S. Mariswamy, told The Hindu that this was not a case of kidnapping.

The Haryana Police team had contacted the city police. But there was no breakthrough yet in the case, he said.

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