Police accuse family of concealing facts
TURA: The live-in partner of a Meghalaya police constable whose sudden disappearance from Baghmara in August, this year, had prompted a frantic search and sullied the name of the state police force that was accused of dragging its feet into an investigation has finally come to an end with the woman being traced to Kolkata.
Dipika Falicia A Sangma, who disappeared on August 9 leaving behind her two-year-old child at home, was traced at the West Bengal capital by Baghmara police, three days ago.
She is currently being brought back to Baghmara under police escort.
The breakthrough came after Baghmara police received a tip off from one of their sources about the girl’s presence in Kolkata and alerted their counterparts in Bengal police. They located the woman in Kolkata where she was allegedly working in a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre.
“She was staying with another man presumed to be her boyfriend and working in the BPO all this time. It appears she had eloped after leaving her child behind,” informed Baghmara police to The Shillong Times.
The South Garo Hills police have also accused the ‘missing’ girl’s family of concealing facts and trying to mislead the investigation. “The family initially tried to mislead police when the investigation was launched. But we were able to unearth the facts following tip off from our sources,” claimed Baghmara police officials.
The family of the girl had blamed her live-in partner and police constable Keneth M Sangma, a constable of the 3rd MLP Battalion posted at Kulang in South West Khasi Hills for her disappearance.
The girl’s sister, Marjina A Sangma, had filed an FIR after her sister disappeared on August 9 following an alleged quarrel with Keneth Sangma at their temporary residence in Balsrigittim Boldak A’ding of Baghmara town.
The girl’s family had suspected Keneth and his mother of being responsible for Depika’s disappearance and even alleged that her personal cell phone had been destroyed but her SIM card remained active.
The family also knocked on the doors of Meghalaya DGP P J P Hanaman seeking his intervention claiming that police were being reluctant to pursue the case.
Unconvinced with the role of the South Garo Hills police in pursuing the case, the girl’s family had also filed another FIR with Tura police shortly after the disappearance.