A four-year-old girl, Nikhita Jagtiani, disappeared from her Rego Park, Queens, home after being taken by her non-custodial mother, Anupama Sharma, on October 1, 2013. Nikhita, of Asian descent with brown hair and brown eyes, had just started school in Manhattan; Sharma removed her from school claiming a family emergency and then severed ties in New York by taking a leave from work and ending her lease.

After vanishing from the city, Sharma told Nikhita’s father, Vikram Jagtiani, that she and Nikhita were in India and would not return, confirming the child was taken out of the country without the father’s consent. The FBI New York Field Office is handling the case, and a federal kidnapping warrant for Anupama Sharma was issued in June 2016. Nikhita’s precise whereabouts in India remain unknown.

If anyone has information about Nikhita’s location in India or recalls seeing evidence of the mother and daughter’s preparations to leave New York in autumn 2013, please come forward.