Financial issues made fashion designer go missing: Police

Financial matters pertaining to her family put fashion designer Shipra Malik under stress and she went missing from her home in Noida on February 29, a senior police official said on Sunday.

“Shipra fled because of some financial isssues with her in-laws,” SP City Dinesh Yadav said.

Residents of Hisawda village in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh – the native village of Shipra’s father-in-law Virendra Malik – said that the latter had sold his ancestral agricultural property to settle his son Chetan (Shipra’s husband) and her in their respective businesses.

However, after opening a restaurant in Meerut and later shifting to Noida to open another restaurant in Sector 18, Chetan switched over to real estate business. However, a downturn in the business led to financial disputes in the family. This allegedly forced Shipra to run away. Shipra’s husband Chetan had filed a complaint after she went missing, police said.  On March 4, Shipra, 29, had knocked at a door at Sultanpur in Gurgaon and said that she was kidnapped and dumped by her kidnappers.