Snapdeal Employee Dipti Sarna, Missing Since wednesday, found

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Feb 12, 2016: Snapdeal employee Dipti Sarna, who went missing near Delhi on her way home from work on Wednesday, has been found and is back with her family.

The police said Dipti called this morning to say that she is safe and on a train from Haryana’s Panipat to Delhi. Her father and brother met her at the railway station, along with a police team.

"I thank the Ghaziabad police for helping us find her," Dipti’s father Narendra Sarna said.

It is not clear how Dipti reached Panipat. "She called in the morning saying ’Papa please come and pick me up’," said her mother.

The 24-year-old went missing from Ghaziabad on Wednesday evening while taking her usual route home after leaving the Snapdeal office in Gurgaon. Her phone was switched off after she spoke to a friend from an auto, and was heard scolding the driver about the route he was taking.

Dipti took the metro to Ghaziabad, where she got into the auto around 8 pm. From the auto, she called home to inform her family that she was en route to a pre-arranged spot from where her father or brother would collect her.

She then phoned her friend in Bangalore. That was the last that anyone heard from her. When her friend informed her family about her argument with the auto driver, they went to the spot but found nothing.

As comments on the missing young woman flooded social media, the police launched a massive search. Snapdeal started an online campaign using #HelpFindDipti, which became a top trend on twitter.

"After she is back home we will figure out everything...how and where the auto driver took her, which wrong route he took...My daughter is completely fine and she is coming home. I don’t want to say anything else," Dipti’s mother said.

Kunal Bahl, the Snapdeal founder, had said yesterday the organization was working with the police to help locate her. The company, which is backed by Japan’s SoftBank, said it was "extremely disturbed with the reported abduction" and Dipti’s security and safety was its topmost priority.