A female lawyer and Civil Judge aspirant, Archana Tiwari, who was reported missing while travelling on a train nearly two weeks ago, was traced in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Khiri town on the Nepal border on Tuesday (August 19, 2025), a police official said.
Ms. Tiwari, who was heading to Katni from Indore on the intervening nights of August 7-8 for the Rakshabandhan festival, did not reach her destination and was missing since then.
“Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel finally traced Archana Tiwari in Lakhimpur-Khiri town on the Indo-Nepal border after 12 days of hectic search,” Superintendent of Police (Railways) Rahul Kumar Lodha said.
Cops are bringing her back to Bhopal and after recording her statement, details of the entire episode will be known, he said.
Ms. Tiwari’s kin earlier suspected that she was a victim of human trafficking and sought a CBI probe, but Mr. Lodha did not say anything about this angle.
