Missing Girl Surfaces A Day After Her ‘Cremation’

A father cremated the decomposed remains of his “daughter” and performed the last rites in Nagaon this morning, around the time she surfaced at a police station in Tezpur 60km away, boyfriend in tow, to reveal a grand elopement tale.


Indrani, a 19-year-old diploma engineering student at Akash Institute, went missing from her hostel in Guwahati on October 17.

When her family in Nagaon failed to contact her over phone till the next day, they filed a complaint at Bhangagarh police station in Guwahati on October 19, alleging she had been abducted.

On October 25, the body of a girl was recovered at Bilasipara in Dhubri district.

The following day, Indrani’s family reached Bilasipara, identified the body as hers, took it home and cremated it yesterday. “We have heard that she surrendered before the police at Tezpur. But we cannot accept her as our daughter. This girl (whose body was cremated) is our daughter and we will complete all the rituals. We do not want her back now. For us, she is dead,” Naba Kamal Bora, retired ASEB employee from Haibargoan Kawaimari in Nagaon, told The Telegraph.

Indrani is his only child. He said they had identified the body from the clothes she was wearing because the body was decomposed.

Indrani stood with boyfriend Mukut Ali at Kacharigaon police outpost today wearing a pink salwar kameez and gold-coloured bangles. “We did not know about death of the girl or her cremation at our village. At that time we were in Siliguri and we were not in touch with our families. I do not know what my parents will do, but my boyfriend’s family has accepted me and this is good enough for me,” she told reporters.

She had been in touch with Ali over telephone and had willingly gone away with him first to Dhubri and from there to Siliguri. “Now we have surrendered before the police,” she said, adding that they returned from Siliguri only this morning.

According to a police official in Tezpur, 25-year-old Ali had been arrested earlier in a criminal case involving fake currency notes and court stamp papers and was released on bail two months ago by Tezpur court.

The couple have been sent to Bhangagarh police station.

Now that the real Indrani has surfaced, it remains a mystery whose body the girl’s family has cremated.

“We have sent blood samples of the girl for DNA testing and if anybody comes to claim the body, then blood samples of the parents would be sent for DNA test. If they match, the body will be identified,” said Bilasipara sub-divisional police officer, Gunindra Deka.

SOURCE