Overview
- The three relatives have been untraceable since September 22 after leaving Gujarat on September 20 for an agent-arranged journey to the United States.
- Families report a caller using the name "Khan" demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore and say some payments were already made to people they were told were holding the trio.
- Relatives and the local agent say the family paid roughly Rs 60 lakh to Rs 75 lakh per person to intermediaries to arrange the irregular route.
- The reported travel path included domestic transit to Rajasthan and Jaipur, an Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi, and onward movement to Addis Ababa, where the group held Ethiopian e-visas.
- Langhnaj police have registered a missing-persons complaint and are investigating the agent network, the flow of payments and the ransom contact, while there is no public confirmation yet from Ethiopian authorities.