Mumbai: 15 months on, missing 19-yr-old’s father pins hopes on spiritual leaders as cops give up

Mumbai | Friday | 22nd February, 2019

Summary:

Two months after Wajid went missing, a unit of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad visited his house. As police stopped pursuing his missing complaint, Haider then started visited spiritual gurus in and around Mumbai. AdvertisingSoon after Wajid went missing, his father made several trips to the local police station but he gave up when he felt there was no help coming his way. The boy, who told his father he was going to college, never returned home and in over a year since his disappearance, his father Haider Ali has scouted the streets of Mumbai, its far-flung suburbs and other cities too, only to be disappointed. However, the 50-year-old man, father of six children, said that days before Wajid went missing, his elder brother Ahmed had confronted him when he had said that he wanted to leave everything and go to Medina..