15 yrs on, Jharkhand woman reunited with kin

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, June 18

A 25-year-old woman, who went missing about 15 years ago from Jharkhand, was reunited with her family on Monday. The reunion was made possible with the efforts by Haryana Sugarfed Chairman Chander Parkash Kathuria and former BJP MLA from Jharkhand Guru Charan.

They thanked Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his Jharkhand counterpart Raghubar Das for helping them out.

Dulari was speechless after meeting her father Gono Surin, a resident of Rela village in Jharkhand. Her father came from Jharkhand with the former MLA.

“I am lucky to be reunited with my family after a long gap of 15 years. I was kidnapped and handed over to a trafficking agent in Delhi. I stayed there for a day and was then sent to Chandigarh to a woman agent. I worked as a bounded labourer and was not paid wages,” Dulari told The Tribune.

Dulari’s father said it was an unbelievable moment for him. “I thank God for reuniting me with my daughter.”

Kathuria came in contact with Dulari around seven months ago when he asked his office employee to hire a help for his Karnal house. “My employee told me about a woman service provider in Chandigarh. A few days later, Dulari was sent to my house as a help,” he said.

“After working for four months at my house, Dulari told my wife Hemlata and daughter Divya about the ordeal she had been facing. She said the service provider was not giving her money for the work she was doing at my house,” the Sugarfed Chairman said.

Since that day, he started to trace her parents. “When I stopped transferring Dulari’s salary to the service provider’s account, she threatened to implicate me in a rape case,” the Sugarfed chairman said.

Undeterred, Kathuria met Khattar and told him about Dulari’s tale. “The CM asked me to trace her parents. I contacted the Jharkhand CM, who tasked Guru Charan with tracing the family.”

The former MLA said it was difficult to trace the family as Dulari’s native village was in a Maoist-hit area. “It took me about 15 days to contact Dulari’s parents,” he said.

Dulari plans to leave for Jharkhand soon. After a few days at home, she will return to Karnal to continue working at Kathuria’s home.