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According to the family of the teenager, a resident of Central Howrah, she had gone to buy milk from a shop near her home on Thursday morning, but has been missing ever since. She was last seen at Howrah railway station.

Damayanti, a resident of Umacharan Bhattacharya Lane, practices at Olympian Joydeep Karmakar’s rifle shooting training centre. On Thursday, she left her home around 9 am to buy milk. When she had not returned by 9.30 am, her family went to search for her by the river, thinking she might have gone for a morning walk. However, when she was not found there, the family sought help from the police. The teenager was not carrying her mobile phone when she left home Thursday morning. She was wearing pink clothes.

A missing person complaint has been filed at the Howrah police station. According to the family, CCTV footage from Howrah railway station showed the teenager entering the station at around 9.45 am. She was last seen moving towards platforms 4 and 5 at around 10 am, when local trains to Arambagh and Bardhaman were scheduled to arrive at these platforms, the family said.

Damayanti’s father Dhruvajyoti Sen said the girl went to bed early on Wednesday. However, the family did not suspect any trouble or disturbance. Incidentally, Damayanti has also earned a chance to play in the national shooting team trials.

The family has also made an appeal on social media to find her. Since then, multiple calls have been received with knowledge of Damayanti’s whereabouts, but none of the leads have turned out to be reliable so far. A similar call had also come from Bardhaman, but it was found out upon inquiries that the person being referred to was not the teenage shooter.

Later on Friday evening, the teenager’s father met Sports Minister Indranil Khan and informed him about the incident. Police sources said the Howrah district police has constituted a four-member special team to find the teenage shooter.