Faridkot, October 14
Three weeks have passed since 15-year-old Shruti was kidnapped from her residence here. The agonising wait for her daughter’s return has taken its toll on Shruti’s mother, who has reportedly gone into depression.
Three weeks have passed since 15-year-old Shruti was kidnapped from her residence here. The agonising wait for her daughter’s return has taken its toll on Shruti’s mother, who has reportedly gone into depression.
“To make the matters worse, she has stopped taking meals”, said Ashwani Sachdeva, Shruti’s father. “My elder daughter, a student of BSc (Ist year), has not attended her college for the past three weeks,” he said.
Even Shruti, a Class X student of a convent school in Faridkot, had stopped going to school three months ago after the accused allegedly started stalking her.
“From June this year, I started dropping Shruti to her school. But after the earlier kidnapping of my daughter by the same accused, we stopped sending her to school,” Ashwani said, adding despite this, the accused had succeeded in kidnapped my daughter for the second time. “The incident has left us hopeless,” he said.
Meanwhile, apparently fearing a public backlash, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today cancelled his visit to Faridkot to attend the bhog ceremony of an Akali leader.
Sources said the Deputy Chief Minister’s visit was cancelled despite massive security arrangements after the official vehicle of a Cabinet minister faced tough opposition from the public this morning.