Woman claims her father is 'missing' in Bahrain, seeks help to find him

TDT | Manama                                                 

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com  

A 22-year-old Indian woman is pleading for support to find her “missing dad” who came to Bahrain 15 years ago and never returned home. 

Anju Chandran, who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital district of the South Indian state of Kerala, says her dad left the family when she was six years old. 

“Long 15 years have passed without having any information on my dad. The family has been in great struggle after he went missing in Bahrain.”  

Speaking to The Daily Tribune from Thiruvananthapuram, Anju’s mother Rani, said there were no disputes between husband and wife or with any other family members. 

“We have no idea as to why he left the family. The children have grown up and they need his support,” she said. 

Anju is a final year nursing graduation student. In her social media post seeking help to find her father, Anju says she has been in a great struggle to pay her fees and other expenses related to education. 

It is learnt that many social workers have stepped in to help the family in finding the “missing man”. “We will certainly help the family. What we require is a letter written by the wife of the missing man addressed to the Indian Embassy, which is responsible for all Indian citizens in the Kingdom.”

He said it is the duty of social workers in the Kingdom, along with embassy officials, to help those families who are attempting to find out their missing members. “We have helped many families in the past.”

Pravasa Lokam, one of the popular television shows aired by the Malayalam channel Kairali TV, deals with missing persons abroad, especially in the Gulf countries. 

The show has successfully, many times, reunited individuals with their families back in Kerala, after locating a good number of individuals, who went missing in the Gulf countries. 

The Daily Tribune is refraining from mentioning the ‘missing man’s’ name to protect his privacy as the newspaper is absolutely unaware of the reasons that keeps him away from the family. 

Earlier, The Daily Tribune published an article on the plight of a Pakistani family after “one of its members went missing”.  

The family, speaking to the newspaper, pleaded for support from the Kingdom’s authorities to find their member, who, according to them, had gone missing for over months. 

Later, the Capital Governorate Police Directorate issued a statement revealing that the Pakistani expatriate is serving time in jail after being sentenced to three months by the criminal court following his involvement in a robbery case. 

“He was sentenced to three months in jail followed by deportation. A lawyer was hired to defend him in court,” the statement added.