Indian woman, son travel to Dubai seeking husband missing 3 years
In July 2021, the woman received a strange message from the husband's facebook page that stated he lost his cellphone
An Indian woman had to travel to Dubai along with her son in an effort to find her husband, who has been unaccounted for the last three years. Building contractor by the name of Sanjay Motilal Parmar, aged father of two grown up sons vanished into thin air when he had gone to Sharjah for work.
Sanjay, 53 years old hails from Vadodara district of Gujarat coupled with and swami last spoke to his family in march twenty twenty one. Concerned with his absence for over 4 weeks, his relatives initiated a missing persons search in UAE along with the Indian Embassy located in Abu Dhabi. Numerous pursuits and follow-ups later there is not a single progress in the case.
This week her son 20-year-old Aayush along with his mother Komal Sanjay’s wife reached Dubai last week to trace him. “The situation has reached a standstill, and we are almost out of funds,” Komal expressed.
I Needed to borrow money from a friend just to stay in a hotel. Needing to spend all the available money in looking for him. How can he just vanish?" Aayush – an electrical engineering student “I am positive. We have interacted with immigration authorities and they have assured us that he has not departed from the borders,” Aayush said. “The Indian Consulate also informed us that he is not in prison, but is missing and his sponsor has reported him missing. We will locate him.”
Sanjay entered UAE on a visit visa in March 2020, although he was working in Sharjah before going missing. Komal narrated how her husband made a point to call them almost every day and most of the time twice in the same day.
Never did he miss a day. He will call to find out the state of things with us, if we are fine. He has even sent money at odd times, at these hard times, whenever he could. It struck me as odd when suddenly he stopped calling, even on the 17th birthday of Aayush, the birthday boy Dear husband never called, not even once.
Mysterious Facebook message
On 08 July 2021 Komal remembered getting a stalker's short note through Sanjay’s Facebook. It was written in Gujarati and was about him losing his mobile phone. "The one thing that stood out was that he had never attempted to contact me using facebook messenger before. I used to get a text message from him and I would call back hoping to hear from him but I never heard from that," Komal explained. “That is so unlike him. He used to ensure we were always able to reach him. These are just not adding up.”
After that incident, Sanjay has not logged into his Facebook account. He does not use any other active means that might be available to the family, causing more questions than answers.
Living in the UAE, the mother and son have approached the local Gujarati population, sending a photo of Sanjay on different whatsapp groups, hoping somebody may know him. As of now however, their attempts haven’t brought any results. “We have done all that we could even imagine. We have reached out to community groups and tried speaking to random people.”
The family has even involved the local political representatives in India for further pushing the issue. “One of our MPs even went as far as writing the embassy but nothing changed. It’s like that over and over again.”
As for the last official communication addressed to them by the Mission, this was received on 13 August from the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi stating that Sanjay is still in UAE and that there are no legal cases pending against him apart from one case in which his employer from Sharjah reported him as absconding.
Looking for answers but getting none, the Parmar family is now finding it hard both financially and emotionally. “We’re hanging in by a thread,” Komal said. “I don’t care what it takes—I just need to know what happened to him, so we must know if he is alive.”
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