Missing Tibet
activist returns safe home in Mumbai
Phayul, Wednesday, September 19, 2007
By Phurbu Thinley
Mr CA Kallianpur
returned safe home Wednesday morning after he went missing since September 11,
2007
Dharamsala, September 19: Tibet activist and National Coordinator of Friends
of Tibet (FOT), Mr CA Kallianpur has returned safe home in Mumbai this morning
after he went missing for more than a week.
The 54-year old activist-cum-researcher went missing from a train while traveling from Mumbai to New Delhi on September 11.
Until now, his disappearance has the organisation worried and officials equally clueless.
Kallianpur's mobile, which was traced to Jaipur Circle in Rajasthan, was earlier recovered from one Jeetendra, a young boy in Kishenganj village, near Alwar in Rajasthan. The handset was gifted by his father Kailash Chand who happened to be travelling on the same train on September 11. On questioning, Chand reportedly said he found the phone lying under a seat in the compartment in which he travelled from 11:00 pm, September 11 and got down at Mathura Junction at 7:00 am the following day.
According to FOT General Secretary and Tibetan activist Mr Tenzin Tsundue, Mr Kallianpur was "drugged in Mathura and lost all his belongings and, for many days he was dazed".
Although Mr Kallianpur is now back home safe, he is not well according to FOT's Anant Kumar Asthana.
"We are thankful to everyone for their efforts and prayers for the safety of Mr Kallianpur," Tsundue said.
"Now we are on our way to Bombay (Mumbai) to meet him" elated Tsundue told Phayul when contacted on Phone.
The FOT group alleges that Mr Kallianpur's disappearance is the second time in weeks that an activist has been the victim of unknown assailants.
On Aug 24, Greenpeace and Friends of Tibet campaigner V.J. Jose was drugged on a train while returning from New Delhi to Kerala. He was found unconscious at the Jhansi railway station in Madhya Pradesh and there were marks on his feet indicating that he had been beaten severely.
Kallianpur was travelling to New Delhi to organise a conference on 'India's Foreign Policy on China' at the India International Centre scheduled on Sep 13.
Kallianpur was travelling by the Paschim Express (No. 2925) on a Tatkal ticket but never reached the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, where he was supposed to reach by 11.30 a.m. on Sep 12.
FOT activists and
his family earlier alleged that railway police at Bandra in Mumbai and New Delhi
have refused to accept missing person reports.