CBI locates missing New Alipore youth as watchman in Palghar after 4 years

• A youth from Kolkata who went missing in 2019 was found working as a watchman in Palghar, Thane,
• CBI officials tracked down Biswas in Palghar and brought back to his family
• Trishit Biswas had gone missing after being reprimanded by his father

The CBI in Mumbai traced a youth from New Alipore who went missing from his home in November 2019. The youth, who was found working as a watchman in Palghar, Thane, was brought back to Kolkata and produced before the court. He is now back with his family.

Trishit Biswas, a resident of Durgapur Colony in New Alipore and a second-year student of a polytechnic, went missing after being reprimanded by his father. For the next few days his father searched in all possible places. The new Alipore police also started searching for Biswas. But he could not be traced. The case was then taken over by the state CID. Unable to trace him, they applied to the court for a closure report in 2021. Trishita's father Tarakeshwar, a railway employee, refused to surrender and approached the Calcutta High Court.

"The police claimed to have sent search teams for Trishit, but he could not be found. Tarakeshwar was not convinced and moved the Calcutta HC," said his lawyer Kunal Ganguly. Tarakeshwar was constantly searching for his son, often pasting posters on trains, buses or walls, publishing notices in newspapers and approaching NGOs for help. "The man was getting desperate. He stopped eating the foods his son liked, the family stopped attending celebrations, the young man's mother fell ill," Ganguly said.

Last November, the case was handed over to the CBI after Tarakeshwar told the HC that he suspected his son might be in Bangladesh. Tarakeshwar received information that his son had been spotted in a village in Natore, Bangladesh. He reportedly began working there under a clothing merchant. Suspecting that his son had been kidnapped and taken to Bangladesh, Tarakeshwar filed a case against a Behrampore-based businessman. While the police initially arrested the person, she was later released on bail as her involvement could not be established.

CBI officials started tracking calls and numbers related to Biswas's phone and tracked down a person named Daksh Singhania in Palghar. "He had an Aadhaar card and other documents in his name. It took us some time to confirm that he is indeed Trishit Biswas," said a CBI official.

However, CBI officials found no mention of Bangladesh in his statement. "We are talking to him to understand what made him adopt a different identity. We are also probing whether he did it under any intimidation," the official said.
On Thursday, a CBI official called Tarakeshwar and asked him to identify a photograph that matched Biswas' description. "We were hoping to get my son back even though everyone said they won't find him. I am yet to speak to my son in detail as I am out of station. I hope no parent goes through this pain," Tarakeshwar said.