Sudurpaschim grapples with rising cases of missing persons

Among the missing, most are women and children from poor economic backgrounds. Efforts to curb the trend haven’t amounted to much.

Prabin Mahara still remembers the last thing his wife Ganga told him before she went missing some five years ago. “She told me to not leave our daughter alone until she gets back,” Prabin recalls. “But she never came back.”