I found my daughter’s slippers

Pooja, 13, has been missing from Noida’s Sector 37 since December 11, 2004. And for her mother Rajwati, it has been a traumatic wait. ‘‘I had marked my daughter’s slipper with heated wood as many kids used to come to my house to watch TV and the slippers used to get lost,’’ she says. Rajwati went to the police and identified her daughter’s slippers but the police is not saying anything yet. ‘‘For two years, the police have not done anything. Today, they even refuse to believe that I have recognised my child’s slipper. They are just doing this because they want to save face. I think she has met the same horrible fate as the other children,’’ Rajwati says.

She was everything

Aloki Haldar is inconsolable. ‘’I have lost everything,’’ she says. Her daughter Bina worked in one of the houses in Noida’s Sector 31 and disappeared over a year and a half ago. The Haldars migrated from Murshidabad to Delhi 15 years ago in search for a better life. It’s a decision they are regretting.

Missing since March 31, 2005, but no complaint registered

Umesh Kumar, 12, a student of Kanchan Public School went missing from Noida’s Sector 31 in March 2005 but a complaint was never registered. ‘’We were told not to produce children if we could not look after them,’’ says his father Nageshwara Yadav.

The police said, usko shahar ki hawa lag gayi

It was a holiday that went horribly wrong. Rimpa Haldar, 14, came to Noida from Nadia in West Bengal where she was studying to visit her father, a rickshawpuller, and mother, a domestic help. In February, she disappeared.

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