IMPHAL, February 3: A-17 year old orphan whose parents were killed in a mob-violence in 2010 has called upon all concerned including the police and child support groups to help her younger brother and sister.
A visibly emotional Moshma called a press conference at the Manipur Press Club today.
She alleged that her paternal uncle Jallardin has kidnapped her younger sister last evening while she was returning from tuition around 3:30pm.
Charging her paternal uncles of trying to forcibly separate them (the three siblings), Moshma cried for help from the police and child support groups in bringing her brother and sister back.
She identified her paternal uncles to be from Sora Awang Leikai.
Speaking at the press conference today, she said soon after their father and mother were killed on April 1, 2010, and apprehensive of the threat looming on their own lives, their maternal relatives had taken them in and sheltered them at Wangkhem.
She said she along with her younger brother Musharaf Hussain, 13 and younger sister Ashmakhalita, 10 have been living ever since then with their maternal grandparents Abdul Rashid and his wife at Wangkhem.
She said since the incident, the three of them have never visited Sora where their parents had lived, nor did anyone from there come to help them.
“Our parents were not even given a burial site at Sora and had to be buried at Wangkhem,” she lamented.
However, in July last year, their paternal uncle came and after promising to take care of them, took them all back to Sora Awang Leikai, she said.
However, once they reached there, she said she was forced to give up her studies by her uncle whom she identified as Satar.
She said Satar insisted that proper education should be given only to the brother as the other two were girls.
Moshma said Satar took her younger brother to Mumbai on the pretext of providing proper education in mid-August last year; but since then communication with Musharaf has been very rare and we cannot even talk to him on the phone, she added.
However, we have come to know that Musharaf is yet to be admitted to any school, she added.
She continued she had reported of all these to the police and had sought help of the Thoubal CWC through one of their staff Jitendra some months back; however, till date there has been no initiative to bring her brother back from Mumbai.
Recounting her ordeal further, she said she along with her sister had fled from her uncle’s place after three months of staying there and returned to their maternal grandparents place.
“Being in class XII Science, my teachers and institution were unable to accept my three months absence from school, and I had to run from pillar to post for another three months before I was accepted in a boarding and since then I have been working real hard to excel in my board exam which is starting this month.”
She further claimed that amidst all this chaos, their paternal uncle Jallardin has kidnapped her younger sister last evening while she was returning from tuition around 3:30pm from Wangkhem.
She said her younger sister is only a class III student of Nawa SIndam Sangh.
On being informed about the incident, she rushed to her uncle’s place but ended up being physically assaulted she claimed.
“In desperation I ran to the Thoubal Police Station alone, but the police even after hearing my story referred me to Yairipok Police Station.”
“I went to Yairipok Police Station in the night, but despite registration of an FIR, there has been neither any progress nor information on where my younger sister is,” she lamented.
“IO Islamuddin had, however, called to inform that they found the residence of my uncle locked, she said.
She also added that the IO charged her of taking back her younger sister from their uncle’s residence based on heresay.
“After a sleepless night I went to the Yairipok police station again this morning but they asked me to come back in the evening and speak to the lady police without giving any update or assurance about my kidnapped sister”, she added.
“I am an orphan minor struggling for survival and have no one to assist these attempts by my uncles. Their intentions are murky and I fear for the lives of my sister and brother. I urge the police and the Child support groups to help in bringing my brother and sister back,” she said in tears.