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Feb 03, 2015 News
By Romila Boodram
November of this year will be exactly five years since 28-year-old Babita Sarjou, a mother of one,
disappeared without leaving a trace.
The young mother vanished after telling her mother, Champa Seonarine, that she would be meeting with her estranged husband and four-year-old son at the Kitty seawall to view the annual Diwali motorcade.
Sarjou had informed her mother that she would meet with the duo after leaving work around 17:30 hrs on November 04, 2010.
Sarjou was expected back at her mother’s Timehri residence around 21:00 hrs that night but almost five years later, the mother is still waiting on her daughter’s return.
Kaieteur News was told that Sarjou and her husband had been living separately for almost a year and her spouse had custody of the couple’s son.
Today, her mother, Champa is determined more than ever to find out what happened to her daughter.
“I need answers…I want to know what happened to her. Our last goodbye cannot be when she left home in 2010,” the woman lamented.
Sarjou’s estranged husband was taken into police custody days after the woman was reported missing but was released after police failed to find enough evidence to tie him to her disappearance.
However, even now, her relatives are convinced that he is responsible for her disappearance.
“He knows about her. He knows where she is… if something happen to her, then he did it or he paid people to do it to her,” a relative of the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
They claimed that when the woman was first reported missing, the suspect gave conflicting reports.
“She left to go out on the seawall with him. He said that she didn’t meet up with him…and he called us the next day to enquire about her. Not only that but that same night (November 04) he went to the Kitty Police Station to make a report.
In the report, he said that he come to clear his side… why would he make a report and we didn’t report her missing as yet,” the relative said.
Sarjou’s mother told this newspaper that around 07:00 hrs on November 05, she noticed that her daughter had failed to come home and thought that she had spent the night with her estranged husband since they had a history of separating and getting back together.
However, the woman claims that a couple of minutes later, Sarjou’s husband called a relative and informed her that their son wanted to speak to his mother.
“That is when I started to get worried. When we questioned him, he said that my daughter never showed up,” the woman related.
The woman said that she immediately went to both the Timehri and Kitty Police stations to make a missing person report.
She said that when the police attention into her daughter’s case began to dwindle, she as well as other relatives with the help of representatives from various non-governmental organizations began posting and distributing posters at various locations, hoping that members of the public would help in locating her.
Relatives of the missing woman recalled that she had a troubled marriage. They claim she was physically and emotionally abused by her husband who would also threaten her.
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