The Dawadi family last heard from Kamal Prasad was on November 18, 2004, from Kathmandu. During the conversation Kamal had informed his wife that he was going to Malaysia the same day. “Since then we are waiting for him. There is no word from him so far,” she said. Kamal was scheduled to reach Malaysia through Kathmandu-based SOS Company. One of his relatives, Nirmal Neupane, and his father Prem, acted as middlemen to send him to Kuala Lumpur.

 

A few weeks after his disappearance, Nirmal had informed his family through a phone call that he went missing two days after reaching Malaysia. He even sent a photo reportedly taken inside a room in Malaysia that contains Kamal’s belongings.

 

The harried family’s efforts to inquire about Kamal’s whereabouts with the manpower company were to no avail. Sakuntala said the behaviours of the middlemen and the manpower company have left a room for doubt.

 

“It’s been long, but we are always kept in the dark,” she said. Kamal is a native of Shivagunj, Jhapa. He has an eight-year-old daughter and an aged mother. Speaking at a programme in the Capital on Wednesday, Sakuntala called on the government to do the needful.

 

“The government and stakeholders must help me find my husband and punish the culprit,” she pleaded.