Rajatalab Police Recover Two Missing Women, Reports 23/2026 and 20/2026

By Harsh Mehra8 min read
Illustrative photorealistic view of an empty North Indian police-station corridor with beige walls and fluorescent light, no people, no readable signs
Illustrative image: Empty police-station corridor motif after Rajatalab police said they recovered two missing women; no likenesses.

Rajatalab police recovered two missing women on Saturday, 29 August 2026, the station said, working with the surveillance cell and the Social Media Cell of DCP Gomti Zone, Commissionerate Varanasi. Both were described as adults — about 21 and about 22. Both were recovered safely. The station did not name them. Further legal action, police said, is underway.

The files are missing number 23/2026 and missing number 20/2026. They share a station and a recovery date. They do not share a complaint.

Missing number 23/2026 is the woman about 21. She left home without informing anyone on 7 August 2026. Her family reported her missing at Rajatalab on 12 August. Five days sit between the leave and the report. That gap is how the family came in. It is not a delay the station invented for Saturday’s note.

Missing number 20/2026 is the woman about 22. She also left on 7 August. Her family reported at Rajatalab on 9 August, two days after she went. Same leave calendar. Different report calendar. The briefing did not say the two women left together, knew each other, or were traced as a pair. It said two recoveries on 29 August.

Sub-Inspector Ankur and Head Constable Komal Dubey are the recovery officers named by police. Surveillance Constables Santosh Paswan and Manish Kumar are the two names on the surveillance side. The Social Media Cell, DCP Gomti Zone, is the unit credited with assistance. That is the Saturday list. No other officer was attached to this result on the note that reached this desk.

Police said the women were recovered safely with surveillance-cell assistance. How they were found, and where, was not in that briefing. This copy does not add a house, a bus stand, a second city, or a phone dump. Safely recovered, with the cell’s help, is the public result. A guessed trail would overstate what Rajatalab put out.

Further legal action is the station’s phrase for what follows. A section was not specified, and neither was a closure report. A magistrate’s date was not on the note. Until a specified step is named, Saturday’s public facts stop at two safe recoveries, the two missing numbers, the two ages, the two family-report dates, and the named team.

Rajatalab is the station that held both missing reports. DCP Gomti Zone is the zone that holds the Social Media Cell named on this file. Commissionerate Varanasi is the parent. Saturday’s pair sits on Rajatalab’s book. It is not being written onto another station’s missing file.

Both women left on 7 August. The family behind missing 20/2026 came in on 9 August. The family behind missing 23/2026 came in on 12 August. The recovery is dated 29 August. Those are the dates the station used. A fourth date is not added because none was given.

The women are adults. They are not named here. Ages about 21 and about 22 are the identifiers police used. Naming them would go past what the briefing released for publication.

SI Ankur and Head Constable Komal Dubey ran the recovery side. Constables Santosh Paswan and Manish Kumar ran the surveillance side. The Social Media Cell of DCP Gomti Zone is the assisting unit. Four named officers and the Gomti Zone cell sit on two missing numbers. That is Saturday’s named list. It is not a roundup of other August missing papers.

Rajatalab police said they recovered two missing women, about 21 and 22, on Saturday with surveillance-cell assistance, closing missing numbers 23/2026 and 20/2026, and that further legal action is underway.

Sources and reporting

Rajatalab police and Social Media Cell, DCP Gomti Zone, Commissionerate Varanasi, dated 29 Aug 2026, including named recovery and surveillance officers and missing numbers 23/2026 and 20/2026.

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