NHRC seeks report from Kanpur Police regarding ‘Missing Malaysian in UP’

The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Inspector General of Police, Kanpur, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kanpur and Inspector General, Railway Police Force, Delhi to send their comments within 72 hours regarding the complaint of a Malaysian citizen who has alleged that her father had gone missing from a train in UP and due to the apathy of the police force she had been unable to trace the old man.





According to the complainant Ms. Shyama Narayanan Nair, her father Mr. M. M. Narayanan Nair had disappeared from the train near Etawah in Uttar Pradesh while traveling from Varanasi to Delhi with the rest of the family.





A complaint was lodged at the Railway Police Station in Delhi as well as in Kanpur. A report was also lodged in the Malaysian Embassy.





There was allegedly no action taken by the police on the complaint and they even refused to accept a photograph of the victim for the purpose of searching him out.





The complainant, however, by her own efforts had managed to learn that her father had been seen in the Kanpur Railway Station and elsewhere in the city. Her complaint to the Commission was that most of the police officials had been very unhelpful and even the Malaysian Embassy has expressed their inability to help. She has thus requested the Commission to help her.





Taking cognizance of this complaint, the Commission has asked the concerned police officials to inform it about the steps that have been taken to locate Mr. M.M Narayanan Nair and whether search for him has been made in hospitals/Nursing Homes at Kanpur.