My mother is critical, don't tell anything to her: Sister of woman on board crashed Nepal plane requests police

When Mumbai police personnel on Sunday contacted the elder sister of Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathi who was on board the plane that crashed in Nepal earlier in the day she requested them not to tell anything about the incident to her mother saying she was already in a critical condition an official saidThe fate of Vaibhavi Tripathi her husband Ashok Kumar Tripathi and their children Dhanush and Ritika residents of Thane city adjoining Mumbai and 18 others travelling with them in the Tara Air plane is yet to be known hours after the aircraft crashed in the mountainous region of the Himalayan nation minutes after taking off officials saidFollowing the incident the Indian Embassy in Nepal contacted the Mumbai police asking them to find the residence of the four family members who were on board the plane and inform the relatives about it Accordingly a team of the Borivali police station got in touch with one Seema Prabhu who resides in Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathis housing society She gave Vaibhavis elder sister Sanjeevani Sadanis contact number who lives with her mother in Thane an official saidThe police contacted Vaibhavis sister and shared the information with her But she told our personnel that she had already got in touch with the Indian embassy in Nepal She then requested the police not to tell anything about the incident to her mother as her health condition is critical he addedThe official said that the address mentioned on Vaibhavis passport said she is a resident of Bhushan Park View Society at Chikuwadi in Borivali But when the police team went to that place it was found that the flat had been rented out he saidLater the police team found out that the Tripathi family currently resides in Thane city and their house is located in the area under the jurisdiction of Kapurbawdi police station while Sadani lives with her mother in A nearby area the police official saidThe Twin Otter 9NAET plane belonging to Tara Air took off at 1015 am from Pokhara and lost contact with the control tower 15 minutes later The plane was later spotted in a state of burning at Laningchgola an upper area of Larikota in Thasang Rural Municipality2 in Mustang districtDriver says he had dropped Tripathi family to Mumbai airport two days backFor 29yearold Ashish Sawant it came as a big shock when he heard that four members of the Tripathi family for whom he works as a driver here were on board the plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday as recalled dropping them to the Mumbai airport just two days backI have lost everything he said with tears rolling down his cheeks even as the fate of the Tripathi family and 18 others on board the illfated plane remained unclear as bad weather made it difficult to locate the aircraft that went missing in the mountainous region of Nepal minutes after taking off on Sunday morningAccording to the police here Ashok Kumar Tripathi 54 his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathi their 22yearold son Dhanush and 15yearold daughter Ritika were on board the Nepalese planeSawant who resides at Diva in Thane said he has been working as the Tripathi familys driver for the last seven years and used to drop Vaibhavi Tripathi to her office in BandraKurla Complex BKC in MumbaiIt was just two days back that I had dropped the family to the Mumbai international airport and today I received this shocking news he saidAfter learning that the Tripathi family was travelling in the plane in Nepal he rushed to their house in Rustomjee Athena apartment located in Balkum area of the city to enquire about themHe also said that it was just two months back they had purchased a new carThe watchman of the building 55yearold Sunil Chalke said the Tripathi family members were very loving It is sad that they part of this tragedy he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever