Missing HR executive found in Goa, doesn’t know how she landed there

By: Dipti Sharma

MUMBAI: A day after an HR executive went missing from a Western Railway local in Mumbai, she was located unhurt at Madgaon railway station in Goa on Wednesday. Supriya Chavan (32) told her family that she had blanked out and did not know how she had reached Goa. Around Rs 2,000 was missing from her belongings.


Supriya works at a Prabhadevi firm. She lives in Dahisar with her husband Ramchandra, a manager with a pharmaceutical company. She usually boards the 7.13am Churchgate-bound local from Borivli. On Tuesday, she did the same but did not reach office. After her colleagues contacted her family about her absence, they tried to call Supriya but her phone was switched off.

Her family subsequently lodged a missing complaint with Dahisar police and checked the CCTV footage at Borivli station.

Around 7.15am on Wednesday, while the family was inquiring with frequent travellers on WR, Ramchandra received a call. Supriya was on the line. She told him that she was at Madgaon and could not recollect how she had got there. She sounded terrified. Her husband then booked a flight ticket and rushed to Goa. In the meantime, the family’s relatives based out of Sawantwadi in Konkan reached Madgaon station to be with Supriya.

“The Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Madgaon spotted her and came to her aid. Her phone’s sim card was missing though her handset was with her,” said Anup, Supriya's brother-in-law. She is likely to return to Mumbai with her husband in a day or two.

The family also found out that Rs 10,000 had been withdrawn from Surpiya’s bank account on the same morning that she had gone missing.

Around Rs 8,000 in cash was found on her. Relatives said some of her valuables were also missing.