A BILLIONAIRE DAUGHTER ROTS IN UGANDAN JAIL

HERS is a story yet to be written—as if waiting for its many co-authors to come to an agreement about how to proceed

- DIPAK MONDAL

Midway to a presumed denouement, Vasundhara Oswal (26) is lost to her billionaire Indian-origin Swiss industrialist father Pankaj and mother Radhika. In a Uganda dungeon, that is. Her younger sister Riddhi has taken to Instagram, posting pictures of Vasundhara sitting in a room full of shoes, and a prison toilet "with blood and faeces on the floor." The post has a sound clip, where Vasundhara is heard complaining of an anxiety attack and pleading for a doctor.

Riddhi has called out the Ugandan authorities for not only illegally keeping her sister in captivity, but also denying her bail.

Pankaj Oswal has made fervent appeals to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and written an open letter to the Ugandan President, while mother Radhika has appealed for the safe release of her daughter, who she thinks is just an "innocent bystander."