Saima Malik/ Danishwar Hameed
The family of the two Kulgam boys, who have been missing for the past five days is worried and anxious about their safety.
Irshad Ahmad, a cousin to the two missing youth said that two family members left with the team of Kulgam police yesterday to Haryana to assist them in tracing the duo.
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The team, having traveled through the night reached karnal in the morning and is conducting a search.
Talking to The Kashmiriyat, Irshad said that the phone of Younis Ahmad was turned on, yesterday evening till 11:20 PM. “When we called the number, no one was receiving the calls but the texts on WhatsApp were received, but not replied to. we tried calling through WhatsApp and it was repeatedly showing on another call”, Irshad added.
The family said that the person with Younis’s number is using WhatsApp to avoid getting traced. The brothers had taken a load full of apples and unloaded it in Kanpur on 14 November.
“Ankit the owner of Shri Krishna Carrier, a transport company in Kanpur, loaded their truck with leather from a leather factory owned by Pankaj. They had to unload it in Jalandhar. But they got challaned at Etah, which was paid by the family online from Kashmir. The neighbor, Amir Manzoor Malik, who had seen the truck on Aligarh road told us that the truck took a u-turn and speeded back to Aligarh.”
The family is apprehensive that the duo have been kidnapped somewhere in the Uttar Pradesh.
The family filed an FIR against the transport company and the leather factory owner in the morning.
Meanwhile, The Kahmiriyat spoke to the inspector of the concerned Police station in Taroari Haryana who promised full cooperation with the family and the team of JKPolice.
“We are worried, since the encounter in Nagrota” said the father of the duo.
Talking to The Kashmiriyat, a senior police official said that the police is doing everything possible to trace them “ a team of local policemen has already left with the family to search for the boys”.
The family thanked the Jammu Kashmir Police especially SHO, Devinder Singh, for their help and effort.
“The phone has been traced near the Lodhi Colony in New Delhi and the people carrying the phone arrested, the family members along with the team of Jammu Kashmir Police on the way to New Delhi,” a family member told The Kashmiriyat.