In 2020, Neha and her seven-year-old daughter Mansi mysteriously disappeared from their residence in Sector 49, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her husband, Avadhesh, filed a missing persons report after finding their home empty and his wife's phone switched off. Finding no clues after two years, the Noida Police filed a final closure report in November 2022. Distressed by the closure, Avadhesh petitioned the Allahabad High Court, which ordered a reinvestigation. During this time, Delhi Police recovered two disfigured bodies in Shahdara; although Neha's parents mistakenly identified the child's body as Mansi, Avadhesh refused to accept the identification. Avadhesh proactively installed the 'mAadhaar' application on his mobile phone to track any future modifications to his daughter's identity details. In April 2025, he received OTP notifications for an address change request on Mansi's Aadhaar profile. Cyber police traced the OTP location to an Aadhaar center in Devnagar, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. On May 2, 2025, police located Neha and Mansi alive and uninjured. Investigation revealed Neha had met a man through a dating application, fallen into an extramarital relationship, and voluntarily eloped with her daughter without informing her husband.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Noida
Incident Type: Separation / Divorce (No Reported Violence)
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Infidelity
The primary case illustrates an unannounced desertion and prolonged deception originating from an undisclosed extramarital connection established on a dating application. Neha left her marital home in Noida alongside her seven-year-old daughter without prior altercation or warning, causing her husband and law enforcement to treat the incident as an abduction or foul play for five years. The case highlights how hidden online attachments can lead to sudden family abandonment and prolonged missing-person investigations.
Noida Sector 49 Police initially registered a missing report in 2020 but closed the file in November 2022 with a final closure report (FR). The complainant husband, Avadhesh, challenged the closure before the Allahabad High Court, securing an order for reinvestigation. During a parallel discovery of disfigured bodies in Shahdara, Delhi, in-laws mistakenly claimed the child's body was Mansi, but Avadhesh refused the identification. Avadhesh maintained surveillance via the mAadhaar mobile app, receiving OTP alerts for address changes in April 2025. Cyber police traced the OTP source to Devnagar, Jodhpur, leading to the location and recovery of Neha and Mansi alive on May 2, 2025.
The investigation suffered from police inaction that twice resulted in premature closure reports (FRs). Confusion intensified when Delhi Police recovered disfigured bodies in Shahdara and Neha's parents misidentified the girl's body as Mansi. This misidentification almost led authorities to close the case under the false presumption of murder until Avadhesh personally inspected the remains and disputed the match.
In 2020, Neha established an extramarital relationship via a dating app and decided to leave her husband, taking her daughter Mansi from Sector 49, Noida, while Avadhesh was at work. Switching off her phone thwarted immediate police surveillance. Over five years, Avadhesh pursued legal remedies and monitored administrative digital channels. In April 2025, when Neha attempted to update Mansi's registered address at an Aadhaar center in Devnagar, Jodhpur, OTP alerts reached Avadhesh's phone, allowing cyber police to locate and recover the mother and daughter on May 2, 2025.
Although initially treated as a potentially fatal missing-person or kidnapping case—further complicated by false positive identification of unidentified bodies in Delhi—the situation involved no physical violence against the wife or child. However, the emotional distress inflicted on the left-behind spouse, the multi-jurisdictional misdirection of law enforcement resources, and five years of concealed living created complex legal and domestic challenges.
Persistent family advocacy combined with targeted digital tracking (such as identity application monitoring) can resolve long-standing cold cases where standard police methods fail. Additionally, the near-misdirection caused by grieving relatives misidentifying remains underscores the vital necessity of scientific DNA testing prior to closing missing-person investigations based solely on visual inspection.
The sudden, unannounced missing status of Neha and Mansi, coupled with her phone immediately becoming switched off without any reported marital dispute, served as the initial indicator of an intentional departure or unexpected disappearance.
The pivotal clue was the generation of address update OTPs sent to Avadhesh's phone via the mAadhaar app in April 2025, signaling active modifications to his daughter's official records in Rajasthan.
Cyber tracking evidence pinpointing the exact Aadhaar center in Devnagar, Jodhpur, from which the address update OTP originated, provided the critical location evidence.
Avadhesh reported that his wife never left home without informing him and described his repeated failed attempts to call her before her mobile phone went offline. Neha's parents initially inspected remains in Shahdara, Delhi, and stated the young girl was Mansi, whereas Avadhesh examined the bodies and firmly declared they were not his wife and daughter.
Initial police conclusions and closure filings presumed the case was unsolvable or that the victims were dead following the Shahdara remains discovery. Follow-up digital investigation based on Aadhaar OTP activity overturned these assumptions, confirming the mother and daughter were alive in Jodhpur.
It remains unresolved whether Neha and Avadhesh will engage in court mediation, pursue divorce, or attempt reconciliation, as well as the formal legal status and identity of the man with whom Neha eloped.