AHMEDABAD: Rendered hopeless and tired of casual replies from the city police, a city-based youth
Sharad Agrawal (30) has taken to
Twitter to trace his ageing father Maganlal Agrawal (67), who is missing since one-and-a-half year. Sharad, who is working with a private company, tweeted on Tuesday, tagging the Prime Minister’s Office (
PMO) and the
Gujarat police to help him locate his father.
In an emotional appeal to the PMO on Twitter with his father’s photo attached, Sharad says: “please help me in finding my father who is missing since 19.12.2016 from our Vastral home ahmedabad...we miss him badly everyday...dont know where and how he is..we filed complaint at police station but as usual no updates” (sic).
Sharad, who is resident of Vrindavan Residency in Vastral, said after the tweet that he has yet not got any response either from the authorities or from the PMO. “Yes, a few people have shared my tweet, and I hope this widens the reach,” he added. Talking to TOI, Sharad said he has heard that government quickly responds to complaints on Twitter. “I tweeted because I know a person who was able to find his father after he tweeted,” Sharad said.
However, his main grief remains that even after lodging a complaint with Ramol police station a year-and-a-half back, the cops give him same reply when he approaches them. “They tell me your father has gone on his own and will come back on his own. He is too old and cannot take care of himself. They don’t understand this,” Sharad said.
Maganlal left his house on December 19, 2016, at about 12.15 pm to get his cellphone repaired. On the way he had even met some persons. He gave his phone for repairs and then he went missing. “We could not trace his movement as there were no closed circuit television cameras at Vastral crossroads at that time,” Sharad said. The Agrawal family, which includes Maganlal’s wife Manju and younger son Jeetendra, searched up to Dakor in Kheda. “We would rush anywhere, whenever we got a tip-off. I appeal to the police department to devote sometime to find my father as he needs us,” Sharad added.
(Representative image)