Bhubaneswar: Police prevented Wednesday, the mother of the two-year-old missing Pihu (Subhalaxmi Nayak) from visiting the state capital.
The child belonging to Madhusudanpur village under the Binjharpur police limits of Jajpur has been missing since the past six months. Sources said that her mom was detained by the police in Cuttack.
Pihu’s mother Monalisa Nayak was on her way to the state capital in a private bus Wednesday morning. However, a team from the Chauliaganj police station intercepted the vehicle near OMP Chhak in Cuttack and whisked her away in a marked vehicle.
Sources said that Monalisa was initially taken to the Chauliaganj police station and questioned for about an hour. Thereafter she was taken to an undisclosed location, sources stated.
It should be stated here that, Monalisa has been constantly blaming the police for their inability to trace Pihu. She was planning to stage a protest in front of the Odisha Legislative Assembly where the Budget Session is currently on.
Monalisa managed to speak to the media for a brief while when she was detained. “I was going to Bhubaneswar to obtain a permission letter for sitting on dharna outside the Odisha Assembly,” she said.
A series of suicide attempts have been made outside the Odisha Assembly in the run up to and during the budget session which is still underway. May be in a bid to avoid recurrence of such untoward incidents, the police stopped Monalisa from visiting the state capital.
Pihu had gone missing August 9, last year while playing in front of her house. Since then she has remained untraceable. Monalisa had also met the SP at his office in Panikoili, October 12 and sought her help in tracing Pihu.
PNN