The Indian Embassy in Tehran on Wednesday said three Indian citizens had gone missing after travelling to Iran. It has urged authorities in Iran to trace them and ensure their safety.
"Families of three Indians have informed the Embassy of India that their relatives are missing after having travelled to Iran. The Embassy has strongly taken up this matter with the Iranian authorities, and requested that the missing Indians should be urgently traced, and their safety should be ensured," the Indian Embassy announced in a post on X. The Indian mission in Tehran is also keeping their families regularly updated about the efforts being made to trace them.
Meanwhile, the mother of one of the men, all of whom belong to Punjab, has alleged that they have been abducted since May 1 and kidnappers have demanded ransom. The three men are residents of Sangrur, Nawanshahr and Hoshiarpur districts of Punjab. They took a flight from Delhi and were supposed to reach Australia on a work permit. However, the agents took them to Iran under the pretext of a temporary stay there. Later, they were kidnapped.
The mother of Husnpreet, a resident of Sangrur, alleged that travel agents took money from them but sent them to Iran instead. She has appealed to the Punjab government for help.
The woman has also alleged that the pictures and videos of the men have been shared with them. Their hands have been tied with ropes with cut and bruise marks on their bodies, she claimed. The grieving families had been speaking with the men during the first few days after they were allegedly kidnapped, but they have not got a chance to interact again since May 11.
The family members of Hoshiarpur's Amritpal, one of the missing men, have also met Punjab Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal and Hoshiarpur MP Dr Rajkumar, requesting them to help bring their children back home safely. It is also learnt that the agent from Hoshiarpur is absconding. The family has also lodged a police complaint against him. This came weeks after hundreds of Indian nationals, most of them from Punjab, who were sent to the US via the Dunki route, were deported to India.
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