MP farmer roams barefoot in city to trace missing son

Varanasi: Pradeep Kumar Trivedi, a farmer from Panna, Madhya Pradesh, has been running from pillar to post — and that too barefoot — to trace his missing son Shiv Kumar Trivedi, who was doing BSc from BHU, for the past six months.
Trivedi had taken a pledge to remain barefoot till he finds his son. The distraught father roams around the city in the day to trace his missing son and sleeps on Assi Ghat at night.
Shiv, a BSc-II student, was found unconscious in the amphitheatre ground of BHU on February 12 night by another student Arjun Singh, who called 112 after which cops took him to Lanka police station from where he went missing.
Bhelupur circle officer Amaresh Baghel said, “On February 12, Shiv was brought to Lanka police station from where he went away the next day and disappeared. As he had not committed any crime, we could not stop him forcibly at the police station. His father submitted a missing complaint after which a case was registered on February 16. We took all measures like publishing his photo and details on various communication mediums but could not trace him so far.”
“I have only two sons and one of them is missing due to laxity of Lanka police, who were never serious in tracing him even though he disappeared from their custody. Former SSP Prabhakar Chawdhary took some interest which resulted in change of behaviour of cops who had been rude, but my son is still missing,” said Trivedi.
The 50-year-old father questions how police could let go a youth, who was not in normal condition.
“My son stayed in a lodge at Chhittupur gate. When I could not contact him for two days I called the lodge owner, who informed Shiv has not returned while his mobile phone and other belongings were in room. I reached Varanasi on February 16 and lodged complaint,” said Trivedi.
Initially, police denied Shiv was at the police station. When I posted messages about Shiv on social media, Arjun responded and provided details of the complaint, he added.
“When I produced details, cops admitted that Shiv was brought to the police station. They said he was not behaving properly and urinated in his clothes,” said Trivedi.
I kept making complaints to IG Varanasi range, ADG Varanasi Zone and on the PMO portal. BHU students also started a campaign on social media to find Shiv.
On Monday, a lawyer Saurabh Tiwari, a BHU alumnus, filed a PIL in Allahabad High Court seeking its intervention in tracing Shiv.