3 min readNagpurMay 17, 2025 08:33 PM IST
First published on: May 17, 2025 at 08:33 PM IST
A 43-year-old woman from Nagpur has gone missing from Hunderman, a remote village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kargil, Ladakh, raising concerns that she may have crossed into Pakistan controlled territory in an alleged attempt to meet a Pakistani pastor she had befriended online.
The woman, Sunita Jamgade, had been travelling with her 12-year-old son, whom she reportedly left behind in the village before disappearing. Her family was informed of her disappearance by Kargil police nearly five days ago.
“They had my nephew with them and told us Sunita had said she would return shortly, but never came back. That’s when we realized she was missing,” her brother Sunil Jamgade told The Indian Express.
Sunita had previously travelled to Amritsar earlier this month to attend a court hearing. According to her brother, this wasn’t her first attempt to reach Pakistan. “She had earlier tried to cross the Attari-Wagah border. The police had caught her but released her after we explained she was not mentally well,” he said.
Following that attempt, she was reportedly upset over her detention and returned to Amritsar, where she created a scene at a police station. She was detained for 21 days and later summoned to court on May 4.
According to Nagpur police, Sunita left home for Punjab with her son and somehow reached Hunderman near the LoC. “It is still unclear how she reached there or what her exact intentions were,” said Satish Aade, inspector at Kapil Nagar police station. “The child is safe with the local police, and the family is expected to bring him back this week,” he said.
Sunita, a former nurse who later worked as a door-to-door garment seller, had been living with her mother in Nagpur since separating from her husband eight years ago. She did not own a mobile phone and had taken her mother’s phone on this trip. “We haven’t found any record of her communicating with anyone prior to her disappearance,” said Aade.
However, sources in the police say that during an earlier interrogation by Amritsar police, Sunita had admitted to speaking online with a pastor based in Pakistan.
There has been no official confirmation from either Kargil or Nagpur police regarding a crossing of the LoC, but unverified reports suggest that an individual may have crossed over in recent days. Authorities have not confirmed whether that person was Sunita.
According to Nagpur police, Sunita left home for Punjab with her son and somehow reached Hunderman near the LoC. (Express Archive) 
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