3 Years after Wife’s disappearance, efforts by Man Prompt HC to probe Human Trafficking in Shirdi

Three years after his wife went missing from a local fair in Shirdi during a family holiday, Manoj Soni’s efforts have prompted the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court to order an investigation into similar disappearances in the famous temple town.

In Aug 2017, Manoj Soni visited the famous Saibaba temple along with his 38-year-old wife Deepti & 2 children. According to the news agency, the family visited a fair in Shirdi & Deepti went to check out a few shops there & never returned.

Since the last three years, Soni has been running to pillar to post, visiting police stations, different cities & the red light areas in the hope of finding his wife but without success. Now, his efforts have prompted the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay HC to ask Maharashtra’s top police officer to probe similar disappearances reported from the famous temple town & investigate the angle of human trafficking, the news agency report said.

The Court said that “It is more than three years that his various attempts to trace out his wife have been rendered futile. He is a resident of Indore & despite the distance, he is tenaciously trying to find his wife even today".

The Bench said that “When poor persons are involved in such cases…their relatives are missing, they are helpless. Most of them do not approach police & very rarely such poor persons can come up to this court".

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