Aman Zutshi
In a perplexing incident, Shabnam Bi, 24, wife of Ghulam Rubbani has allegedly fled with her 1.5- year-old kid to other side of the border in PoK from Salotri border village of Poonch on Feb 3.
As per sources, the matter came to light when the distressed woman’s family members registered a missing complaint on Feb 3 at Jhulas police station in Poonch, when they unable to find Shabnam anywhere.
The brother-in-law of the missing woman has informed media that his sister-in-law was in contact with her uncle, who lives in PoK’s Bandi Abbaspur area which touches the Indian side of Poonch’s Salotri village where the escapee woman resides.
He added that she ran away with her girl toddler to her uncle’s house in Bandi Abbaspur of PoK and the woman’s brother told them that he got a call from Dubai, and somebody told him that Shabnam is in Pakistan.
“This incident happened on Feb 3 when my sister-in-law returned home and told us she is going to her sister’s home in Kasallian.” He added, “But when her husband came home in the evening he contacted her and told her to come back home and she said she is in Kasallian but when she didn’t returned, we worriedly started a search for her and learned in the morning that an auto which she last boarded left her at Khari”.
”We don’t know her whereabouts after that. Later we received a call from her brother and learned that she is in Pakistan. We request Indian and Pakistani govt to help us in bringing her back in Poonch”, he appealed.
