Varanasi: Skeletons of missing girls found in jungle, mother flees

VARANASI: Skeletons of three minor girls, who were missing from a month found in a forest of Harra area on Wednesday. The girls had left their home with their mother in Belahi village of Halia area in Mirzapur district a month ago and were missing since then.
The mother is absconding after the recovery of skeletons. Police have launched a search for her after sending the skeletons for postmortem examination.
SO Halia Rajkumar Singh said that some local shepherds spotted skeletons in the jungles of Harra and alerted the husband and brother of the absconding mother.They reached the spot and ascertained their identity with the help of clothes lying there after which the matter was reported to the police. Police are waiting for postmortem report before lodging a case in this connection, said the SO adding that efforts were being made to trace the absconding mother.
Initial investigation revealed that one Devidas Kole of Belahi village had three sons and a daughter from his first wife Falguni, who died few years back. He had then married Sima, a native of Belgava. Sima had two daughters from her first husband who had died sometime back. After marriage, Sima’s daughters also started dwelling with Kole’s family.
SO Halia said that on August 16 Sima left home with her three daughters- Golu (12), Munni (10) and Mamta (8) without informing Kole. He contacted his in-laws to get their whereabouts but failed. On August 21, Sima contacted her brother Ramakant over phone and informed him that she was in Indore with her daughters. She expressed her wish to come to Ramakant’s place on the occasion of Rakshabandhan. She reached Ramakant’s place alone. On being asked about her daughters, she said that she had left them at Indore railway station.
Later, Kole and Ramakant reached Indore and also visited Ujjain to search for the three girls but couldn’t find them. When they returned, Sima came back to Kole’s place. Police said that after Kole and Ramakant left for jungle on being alerted about the recovery of skeletons, Sima fled.