2 Arunachal Men Missing For 2 Years, Last Sighted Near China Border

This is for the first time that no whereabouts have been found of two missing persons for almost two years.

Two men from Arunachal Pradesh have been missing for nearly two years from a remote location in the state along the India-China border and are believed to be in the custody of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which so far has not acknowledged the duo's presence in their territory.

Batelum Tikro (35) and his cousin Bainsi Manyu (37) went missing from the Chaglagam area in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh on August 19, 2022, while looking for medicinal herbs at a high altitude area along the border with China and since then they have not been found.

"I have come to know that they were detained by the Chinese army," Mr Tikro's brother Dishanso Chikro told PTI over phone. Mr Chikro said he has approached the local army authorities several times seeking information about his brothers. “I am told that the issue was raised by the Indian Army with their Chinese counterparts. But no response has come so far,” he said.