Overview
- A 24-year-old MBA student, Babita Pandey, was last seen at the Goi base camp and is reported to have disappeared from her tent around midnight on May 29, triggering the search and family complaint.
- About 150 personnel from the Army, ITBP, NDRF, SDRF, police and forest teams have been deployed with drones and sniffer dogs and the operation has shifted to concentrate on a nearby lake with a six-member deep-diving team.
- Police have detained and are questioning two men who accompanied Pandey, and an FIR has been filed under provisions covering kidnapping or secret confinement after her brother lodged a complaint.
- Investigators found the trekking agency Pro Mountain used an expired permit with names edited onto it so QR scans returned other trekkers' data; officials have suspended the agency's registration and are probing the forgery.
- Pandey's mobile remains unreachable with its last tower ping at Goi and authorities have released helpline numbers while the probe continues and searches work through difficult terrain and water bodies.