Family in Meerut Appeals for Help in Tracing Daughter Missing Since 2019

Meerut, India – It has been six years since Priya, a young woman from Meerut, disappeared, leaving her family in anguish. Despite lodging police complaints and approaching local authorities, her family still waits for answers in 2025, clinging to the hope that she will return home someday.

According to her sister, Priya left home in 2018 to pursue a professional course in Noida, commuting to her coaching center in Connaught Place, Delhi. During this time, she came into contact with a man named Badr Siddiqui, who, the family alleges, manipulated and brainwashed her. By early 2019, Priya cut off contact with her family and has remained missing ever since.

“We are certain that Badr Siddiqui is behind her disappearance,” her sister said in an emotional interview. “He has lured many young Hindu girls from different areas — not just Meerut, but Haridwar, Dehradun, and Delhi.”

The family filed a complaint at their local police station in Meerut back in 2019. Although Priya was briefly brought back home during the early investigation, her family noticed disturbing changes in her behavior. She was withdrawn, easily irritable, and bore a burn-like mark on her hand. Whenever questioned, she avoided answers or appeared frightened.

Her sister recounted: “She once told us he would give her things to eat or drink that left her confused, unable to think clearly. She didn’t even know what she was doing.”

After a brief return, Priya vanished again. Witnesses reportedly saw her leaving in a silver Skoda car with tinted windows, accompanied by three or four men. Before disappearing, she sent a final message: “Don’t look for me. I’ve gone far away.” Soon after, her phone was switched off.

That day was Dhanteras, her sister recalls painfully: “While people welcome Goddess Lakshmi into their homes, ours was taken away. Since then, there’s been no peace in our family. My mother suffered a paralysis attack, and my father has been bedridden ever since.”

Despite years of searching and approaching political leaders and officials for help, the family feels abandoned. They allege that Badr Siddiqui boasted of having powerful connections — claiming his brother-in-law is a judge — and used that influence to escape accountability.

“He would tell us nothing could happen to him because of his connections,” her sister said. “We went everywhere we could, but every time we only faced disappointment.”

The family believes Priya was lured with promises of a better life abroad, possibly in Dubai, and then coerced into cutting ties with her loved ones. They say they have screenshots of suspicious messages, written in an unfamiliar tone, which suggest someone else was texting from her phone.

Now, in 2025, her sister makes a direct appeal to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

“Please, help us find our daughter. We have suffered enough. Our hope now rests only with you. Investigate Badr Siddiqui and his network before he escapes again. He is destroying lives. Many other families like ours are suffering in silence.”

The family remains resolute despite years of heartbreak. “We don’t even know if she is alive or where she is,” her sister said. “But we cannot stop searching. Every day we wait for her voice, her face, her return.”

Authorities have yet to announce any breakthrough in the investigation, but the family’s plea stands as a stark reminder of the deep pain caused by unresolved disappearances — and the urgent need for action.