Missing dera follower’s wife shares her ordeal

Satish Seth

Kaithal, March 20

Gyano (28), a resident of Khurana road here, is left broken after she lost her husband at Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa in January 2017. She had gone to the dera to attend a satsang and naam charcha with her husband and children.

Supporting her three children — two sons aged 12 and 11 years and a six-year-old daughter — Gyano said destiny had played a cruel joke on her.

“I work as a domestic help and earn only Rs 4,000 per month and my mother-in-law earns about Rs 5,000. My father-in-law doesn’t work due to poor health condition,” she said, with eyes full of tears.

While narrating her tale here on Tuesday, she said due to heavy rush at the dera on January 26, 2017, she and her husband stood in separate queues to enter the dera premises. After a few hours of wait, she noticed that her husband was not in the queue.

“I thought he must have gone to answer the call of nature, but he did not return for hours. I raised the alarm and sought help from other dera followers to trace my husband, but did not find him. I also waited for a couple of days in Sirsa hoping to find my husband, but all my efforts remained futile,” she said.

She said she contacted the Sirsa police to lodge a missing person complaint of her husband, but they did not took the matter seriously and asked her to lodge a complaint in Kaithal and reasoned that there was a possibility that her husband would have reached his home town.

“I then lodged a complaint at the Kaithal police station,” she said.