Women, children and senior citizens are among the missing from 10 districts of Wagmati

On the 20th of December, they left the house to go for a walk. Both of them have a daughter who is about to turn four years old. Lama and Waiba are also related . Two years have passed since both husbands went to Malaysia for work.

The father-in-law of both the daughters-in-law also filed a petition at the women's cell of the district police office, Hetaunda. However, even after 8 months of submitting the application, the police said that nothing was found about them.

It has been 11 months since not only Vakaiya and Wagmati Rural Municipality, but also 24-year-old married Thulimaya Vick of Bhimfedi Bhaisai disappeared. Her husband has not been able to find her yet. He has submitted a request to the police to stop the search. Husband Suman Vick has been searching for his wife since the day he returned from abroad. Thulimaya has been missing from home since the day her husband left Kathmandu from Malaysia.

She left the house telling her mother-in-law that she was going to get a husband in Kathmandu. She neither reached the airport to welcome her husband, nor returned home. She has disappeared leaving her two sons of two and four years old . It is alleged by her husband that she disappeared after taking all the money she had earned and sent abroad.

It has been 7 months since 19-year-old Sunita Ghimire of Makwanpur's Wasamadi decided to go abroad. But, so far, he is not sure. "It is not clear whether she went abroad or disappeared here," said Bavu Krishna Bahadur Ghimire. He said that he has submitted an application to the District Police Office Hetaunda to search for his daughter.

The wife of Lakshman Blon of Makwanpur Gadhi Sukora, who came to Qatar one and a half years ago for foreign employment, also disappeared from home 9 months ago . Her father-in-law has applied to the District Police Office, Hetaunda, for a search warrant. Police records show that 15 women, including 13 married women, have gone missing in this way.

children are also missing

2 boys and a girl from Manhari rural municipality-4 have been missing since January 15 Three children who came from home to visit Hetaunda market have not returned home yet. The parents of the children have submitted an application with photos requesting that the children be found as they are missing. According to the women's cell of Nepal Police, 7 children, including 5 girls, went missing in the month of February alone.

Last year, 84 girls and 170 women went missing from Makwanpur, while 19 children and 17 senior citizens went missing. Of the 84 missing girls, 78 have been found and 6 are still missing, while out of 170 missing women, only 134 have been found and 36 are yet to be found, District Police Office Hetaunda Police Superintendent Sitaram Rizal said. Last year, out of 19 missing children, 18 were found and one is still missing, while 17 senior citizens were missing, only 14 were found and 5 could not be found.

In Makwanpur, out of 290 missing people last year, 242 people were found and 48 people are still missing, according to the data of Makwanpur police office . Similarly, in Chitwan, which is connected to Makwanpur, according to Hetaunda, the provincial police office, last year, 188 women went missing, 166 were found and 22 are still missing. Where they are, is still not clear.

Last year, 122 girls from Chitwan went missing. Among them, 109 people were found. According to the data of the provincial police office, Hetounda, 13 people have not yet been found. According to the data, 33 children went missing in Chitwan last year, 29 of them were found and 4 are yet to be found. 22 senior citizens were missing, 19 of them were found, three are still unaccounted for.

In the year 080/081, 365 missing women, children and senior citizens from Chitwan were reported to the police . Among them, 323 people were found, 42 people have not been found. Last year, 22 people including women, children and senior citizens went missing in Rasuwa of Bagmati province. 16 people were found there. According to the provincial police office, 6 people have not yet been found. Out of 10 women missing, 4 are still missing. One/one senior citizen and a child have not been found.

According to the data of Provincial Office Hetounda, 48 women went missing in Dhading last year, 35 were found and 13 are still missing. Out of 14 missing girls, 12 have been found. 2 people are still missing. Out of 7 children, 5 have been found, 2 are missing, 2 senior citizens have been lost, 1 has been found and 1 is still missing . Out of 71 missing people in Dhading, 53 people have been found and 18 people have not been found.

According to Wagmati Provincial Office, 111 people have been found out of 125 missing people in Nuwakot last year. 14 people could not be found . Similarly, out of 150 missing people in Kavre, 135 people were found, 15 people are uncontactable. In Sindhuli, out of 121 missing people, 115 people have been found, 6 have not been found, while in Dolakha, 52 people have been found out of 62 missing people, 10 people are still without contact .

Similarly, 42 people including women, children and senior citizens have gone missing in Ramechhap, 32 people have been found and 10 people are still missing. Out of 97 missing people in Sindhupalchowk, 86 people have been found and 11 people are still missing.

1 thousand 345 people including women, children and senior citizens went missing in 10 districts except three districts in the valley of Wagmati province. Among the missing, 1,165 people have been found and 180 people are still missing.

767 women went missing in 10 districts outside Upatya last year, 647 of them were found and 121 are still missing. Similarly, in the year 2080/081, out of 385 missing girls, 355 have been found and 30 are still missing. Out of 120 missing children, 106 have been found and 14 are missing. Of the 73 missing senior citizens, 58 have been found and 15 are still missing.

'Women and children are disappearing,' Prakash Khatiwada, who is working in the children's sector, said, 'It is difficult to find out where the women and children are taken and disappeared.' District Police Office Hetaunda Police Superintendent Rizal said that the list of missing persons may have appeared because the office was not informed. "When daughters, daughters-in-law, grandchildren go missing, the relatives of the family come crying to make a request, but they do not follow up and do not inform about their return home," he said.

Jhavindra Gyawali, the head of Sewin Helpline, who has been working in the field of children for a long time, said that women and children are being lured and sold abroad. "Women and children have fallen into the trap of brokers because of the greed of money," he said.