Montreal woman desperately searching for her missing mom
Posted March 3, 2022 6:44 pm.
Last Updated March 7, 2022 3:07 pm.
Kirandeep Chumber’s mom, Neena Chumber Rani, went missing on Feb. 17 from her Ahuntsic-Cartierville home without a trace.
She has been searching for her ever since.
“I just want to find her and I just have to keep going,” Chumber says. “Because if I don’t look for her, no one is going to look for her.”
Montreal police say 49-year-old Chumber Rani was last seen at 6 p.m. that evening and that those searching for her have a reason to fear for her health and safety.
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Unable to get medical help
Kirandeep says her mother had been experiencing bouts of depression for a while.
“What happened is she’s been feeling a certain way for a certain period of time now,” she says.
“We saw changes in her, but we didn’t really think much about it because it’s mental health and not a lot of people talk about mental health, especially in Brown, our Indian and South-Indian communities it’s not spoken often.”
Her daughter tried to get her help, reaching out to her family doctor and several hospitals, but she was always put on waiting lists and no one was able to offer her the help she needed.
“I was just being tossed from one place to another,” she says, “when what I really needed was for my mom to get the right help. And if I did, my mom would probably be here today.”
No developments on missing person case
The night of her disappearance, Kirandeep says, her mother left her wallet and phone behind and just quickly got into the car and drove away. She quickly called police when she found her car and the keys on the seat.
Chumber says police identified her mother on video surveillance footage walking into Parc des Bateliers, a nearby park where 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou disappeared in 2018.
Since her mother’s disappearance Kirandeep routinely calls police for updates on the case, but there have been no developments.
Chumber Rani is described as 1.5 metres tall and medium built with long grey-black hair, black eyes and brown skin.
She also has a beauty mark on her right eye.
She is believed to be wearing a brown, knee-length coat, a dark tuque and brown boots.
She speaks English, French and Punjabi and is known to spend time in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville and Parc-Extension areas.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
Hoping against hope
In the meantime, her daughter is doing everything she can to find her mother.
“I’ve been going out to all the hospitals, handing out flyers, going out all around our communities, the temples, everywhere,” she says.
“I’ve been reaching out on social media, calling the media, and going out to shelters and everywhere I can, her friends, family, everywhere around the world, just to, at some point, have some hope.”
She wishes things had been different.
“I wish they had diagnosed her, because honestly maybe today I’d have my mom,” she says.
“I don’t know where she is, what she’s doing, and I really miss her. She’s my mom. The last couple of days have been the hardest days of my life.”
