A 31-year-old Afghan man went missing on December 31, 2011 in Karol Bagh. An interesting tale of two brothers ... One who got lost in Delhi when he came down to the city from Afghanistan for medical treatment and another who come down to Delhi to find his brother... In end both of them become good friends of mine...
Thirty one-year-old Jalaluddin Kamran from Afghanistan went missing from Karol Bagh market on New Year’s eve.
The family of the mentally challenged man has been wandering on the streets of Delhi for two weeks, searching for him.
His younger brother, Farhad Kamran, and mother Hakeema are trying to pull all strings to find Jalaluddin, after realising that the police efforts to search him have been next to negligible.
Farhad, who arrived in Delhi on January 7, has recently hired an autorickshaw and a loudspeaker at a rent of Rs 1,000, and has been travelling across the city.
He is trying to appeal to the public to help him find his brother. He travels around 100 km everyday and regularly visits Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Karol Bagh, Connaught Place, Malkaganj, Kashmere ISBT and Gautam Nagar, even AIIMS and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
“If you get any clue about your brother, call me on my phone,” these are the words of an investigating officer involved in this case. Farhad is employed as an IT manager at a Kabul-based NGO, Meher Educational and Human Rights Organisation.
The family is going to seek the help of the National Human Rights Commission as they are disappointed over the way the police have taken up the matter.
“Whenever I visit Karol Bagh police station, I am made to sit before a computer to identify my brother from over a thousand photographs of unidentified bodies,” added Farhad.
Jalaluddin belongs to a middle-class family in Kabul. His mother, Hakeema, had brought Kamran to Delhi for medical treatment at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in December.
On December 31, 2011, Jalaluddin went missing from Ajmal Khan market in Karol Bagh while Hakeema was shopping. Hakeema filed a missing person complaint with Karol Bagh police station. Farhad reached Delhi on January 7 in search of his brother. Farhad has been regularly visiting mosques, gurdwaras, dargahs, hospitals, railway and bus stations.
“I have arranged a list of night shelters in Delhi. Out of 64, I have already visited over 30. I have hired some boys to distribute and paste pamphlets about Jalaluddin across the city,” he said.
Moreover, after hearing their names, some people suspect them as associates of terrorist outfits.
“I have come across many who blatantly ask me if my brother is a terrorist. One evening, a group of young men tried to assault us. We had to flee from the place to save ourselves,” he added.
The family has also visitedthe Afghan embassy twice and the embassy officials have assured them help through the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
He finds missing brother
Five-month search for mentally challenged sibling leads to Kurukshetra
After seeing over 100 unclaimed bodies at mortuaries across the city, visiting 174 private and government hospitals, looking at dingy lanes, markets and religious places — temples, mosques, churches, gurdwaras — and bus stops in the capital and neighbouring cities for the last 151 days, a 30-year-old man from Afghanistan traced his missing mentally challenged elder brother at Kurukshetra in Haryana on Wednesday.
Jalaluddin Kamran, who belongs to a middle-class family in Kabul, and his 65-year-old mother Hakeema, had brought him to Delhi for treatment at Ganga Ram Hospital in
December.
He went missing from Karol Bagh on December 30 last year. Unable to find him, Hakeema approached Karol Bagh police station and a missing person complaint was registered on December 31.
Hakeema’s other son, Farhad Kamran, who was working as an IT engineer at a Kabul-based NGO, Meher Educational and Human Rights Organisation, flew to Delhi on January 7 to trace his elder brother. He landed in Delhi with a list of hospitals, religious places, police stations, road maps and shelter houses.
“From January onwards, we started putting pamphlets across the capital. There is not a single lane that we have not pasted the pamphlets,” Farhad told Deccan Herald.
After that, Farhad for a few days hired a taxi and started visiting all religious places — where food is provide free of cost. Then he hired an autorickshaw and a loudspeaker and travelled around for one-and-a-half month.
Realising that the police efforts to search his brother was negligible during the initial days, Farhad and his mother tried to pull all strings to find Jalaluddin.
“Seeing our efforts, Devesh Srivastava, additional commissioner of police (central), formed a special team to help me find my brother. Ram Singh, station house officer of Karol Bagh, too pitched in for help,” Farhad said, thanking the police officials for their support.
People around were losing hope. But he did not give up. “I was taught in school that ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’ and this kept me going. Apart from that, when I saw my mother every morning with pamphlets in one hand and glue in the other, my determination grew stronger,” said Farhad. He lost his job in Kabul and spent almost all the money his family had.
Despite facing problems at the Foreigner Regional Registration Office over visa and being treated badly in some instances, he kept on looking for his brother. His search ended on Wednesday.
“A neighbour, Kubul Ahmed, at the guest house was going to Punjab to a visit a dargah on Wednesday. I handed him 50 pamphlets and asked him to distribute wherever he went.
When his bus stopped at a roadside eatery at Kurukshetra, he distributed a few pamphlets and moved on. All of a sudden, I received a call from a tea vendor that a man in the pamphlet and a man standing in front of him looked similar and he was asking for water,” said Farhad.
Hearing this, Farhad asked the vendor to keep a watch over the man for an hour.
Meanwhile, he called Karol Bagh police station and asked the officials to get in touch with the local police in Kurukshetra. Within an hour, the local police took that man into custody.
He rushed to Kurukshetra. “When I entered Shahabad police station, I found my brother in tattered conditions,” Farhad said with teary eyes. Now, with no money left, he is wondering whether he will be able to get medical help for his brother, who is also suffering from physical injuries.
I wrote for Deccan Herald
Thirty one-year-old Jalaluddin Kamran from Afghanistan went missing from Karol Bagh market on New Year’s eve.
The family of the mentally challenged man has been wandering on the streets of Delhi for two weeks, searching for him.
His younger brother, Farhad Kamran, and mother Hakeema are trying to pull all strings to find Jalaluddin, after realising that the police efforts to search him have been next to negligible.
Farhad, who arrived in Delhi on January 7, has recently hired an autorickshaw and a loudspeaker at a rent of Rs 1,000, and has been travelling across the city.
He is trying to appeal to the public to help him find his brother. He travels around 100 km everyday and regularly visits Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Karol Bagh, Connaught Place, Malkaganj, Kashmere ISBT and Gautam Nagar, even AIIMS and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
“If you get any clue about your brother, call me on my phone,” these are the words of an investigating officer involved in this case. Farhad is employed as an IT manager at a Kabul-based NGO, Meher Educational and Human Rights Organisation.
The family is going to seek the help of the National Human Rights Commission as they are disappointed over the way the police have taken up the matter.
“Whenever I visit Karol Bagh police station, I am made to sit before a computer to identify my brother from over a thousand photographs of unidentified bodies,” added Farhad.
Jalaluddin belongs to a middle-class family in Kabul. His mother, Hakeema, had brought Kamran to Delhi for medical treatment at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in December.
On December 31, 2011, Jalaluddin went missing from Ajmal Khan market in Karol Bagh while Hakeema was shopping. Hakeema filed a missing person complaint with Karol Bagh police station. Farhad reached Delhi on January 7 in search of his brother. Farhad has been regularly visiting mosques, gurdwaras, dargahs, hospitals, railway and bus stations.
“I have arranged a list of night shelters in Delhi. Out of 64, I have already visited over 30. I have hired some boys to distribute and paste pamphlets about Jalaluddin across the city,” he said.
Moreover, after hearing their names, some people suspect them as associates of terrorist outfits.
“I have come across many who blatantly ask me if my brother is a terrorist. One evening, a group of young men tried to assault us. We had to flee from the place to save ourselves,” he added.
The family has also visitedthe Afghan embassy twice and the embassy officials have assured them help through the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
He finds missing brother
Five-month search for mentally challenged sibling leads to Kurukshetra
After seeing over 100 unclaimed bodies at mortuaries across the city, visiting 174 private and government hospitals, looking at dingy lanes, markets and religious places — temples, mosques, churches, gurdwaras — and bus stops in the capital and neighbouring cities for the last 151 days, a 30-year-old man from Afghanistan traced his missing mentally challenged elder brother at Kurukshetra in Haryana on Wednesday.
Jalaluddin Kamran, who belongs to a middle-class family in Kabul, and his 65-year-old mother Hakeema, had brought him to Delhi for treatment at Ganga Ram Hospital in
December.
He went missing from Karol Bagh on December 30 last year. Unable to find him, Hakeema approached Karol Bagh police station and a missing person complaint was registered on December 31.
Hakeema’s other son, Farhad Kamran, who was working as an IT engineer at a Kabul-based NGO, Meher Educational and Human Rights Organisation, flew to Delhi on January 7 to trace his elder brother. He landed in Delhi with a list of hospitals, religious places, police stations, road maps and shelter houses.
“From January onwards, we started putting pamphlets across the capital. There is not a single lane that we have not pasted the pamphlets,” Farhad told Deccan Herald.
After that, Farhad for a few days hired a taxi and started visiting all religious places — where food is provide free of cost. Then he hired an autorickshaw and a loudspeaker and travelled around for one-and-a-half month.
Realising that the police efforts to search his brother was negligible during the initial days, Farhad and his mother tried to pull all strings to find Jalaluddin.
“Seeing our efforts, Devesh Srivastava, additional commissioner of police (central), formed a special team to help me find my brother. Ram Singh, station house officer of Karol Bagh, too pitched in for help,” Farhad said, thanking the police officials for their support.
People around were losing hope. But he did not give up. “I was taught in school that ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’ and this kept me going. Apart from that, when I saw my mother every morning with pamphlets in one hand and glue in the other, my determination grew stronger,” said Farhad. He lost his job in Kabul and spent almost all the money his family had.
Despite facing problems at the Foreigner Regional Registration Office over visa and being treated badly in some instances, he kept on looking for his brother. His search ended on Wednesday.
“A neighbour, Kubul Ahmed, at the guest house was going to Punjab to a visit a dargah on Wednesday. I handed him 50 pamphlets and asked him to distribute wherever he went.
When his bus stopped at a roadside eatery at Kurukshetra, he distributed a few pamphlets and moved on. All of a sudden, I received a call from a tea vendor that a man in the pamphlet and a man standing in front of him looked similar and he was asking for water,” said Farhad.
Hearing this, Farhad asked the vendor to keep a watch over the man for an hour.
Meanwhile, he called Karol Bagh police station and asked the officials to get in touch with the local police in Kurukshetra. Within an hour, the local police took that man into custody.
He rushed to Kurukshetra. “When I entered Shahabad police station, I found my brother in tattered conditions,” Farhad said with teary eyes. Now, with no money left, he is wondering whether he will be able to get medical help for his brother, who is also suffering from physical injuries.
I wrote for Deccan Herald
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