MISSING Pranita Shrestha of Kalimpong

Pranita Shrestha missing person

This could happen to the wives or children of any one of us. So I am acting in our self-interest.

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Pranita Shrestha reported missing in India

 

Pranita Shrestha, a citizen of Nepal, has gone missing during a trip to visit her family in Kalimpong, India. Pranita is 38 years old and married to a Finnish man. They live in Espoo, Finland (Europe).

Pranita travelled alone from Helsinki to Delhi on Tuesday 19 January 2010. The next day (20 January) at around 10pm Indian local time, her Finnish husband called her on her mobile phone. She was at New Delhi Railway Station waiting for a train. She told him she had bought a ticket and had been waiting for hours because the train was at least 9 hours late.
Pranita was planning to travel by train to either Jalpaiguri or Shiliguri in the north-east of India. From there, she intended by continue by jeep to Kalimpong to visit her parents. No-one has heard from Pranita since the phone call. Phone records show that her mobile phone was briefly switched on at 10.59am Indian local time on Friday 22 January.

Pranita Shrestha is 150 cm / 5 ft tall, weighs 51 kg / 8 st with brown eyes and black hair.

She was wearing navy jeans, a black jacket and ankle-length brown Puma shoes. She had a green upright, fabric trolley suitcase and a smaller, black and white bag also with a trolley system. In her left ring finger, she wears a thin, white gold diamond ring.

Pranita Shrestha trained as a staff nurse in Mumbai, India, and she speaks English, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Newari, Urdu and a little Finnish.

Until June 2009, she lived in the Maiti Devi district of Kathmandu, Nepal. She then moved with her son to live with her Finnish husband in Espoo, Finland.

Interpol and Indian police are investigating the disappearance of Pranita Shrestha.
A reward will be paid for any information that will lead to the return of 38-year-old Pranita Shrestha.
If you have any information, please contact: 

1. Embassy of Finland in Delhi, E-3, Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, sanomat.nde@formin.fi, tel. +91-11-4149 7500 or
+9198111 16843

2. Embassy of Finland in Nepal, Bishalnagar, Kathmandu, sanomat.ket@formin.fi, tel. +977-1-4416 636, 4417 221

3. Mrs Arja Talonen arja.talonen@kuvalehdet.fi tel.+358-50-3662748 (English, German, Swedish, Finnish)

4. Mr. Ville Talonen, moroville@hotmail.com , tel. +358-45-6316 119 (English, Finnish)

5. Mrs. Byoma Tamrakar byoma.tamrakar@gmail.com tel. +358-41 5100864 (Hindi, English, Nepali)

6. Indian Police

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