By IANS
New York : An Indian American woman from Chicago who had gone missing on Christmas eve has been found safe after a week-long search by the police.
Anu Solanki, a 24-year-old resident of Des Plaines in Cook County, was unhappy in her seven- month marriage and had left unannounced with a friend to start a new life, a decision she regrets now.
“She was unhappy in the marriage,” Bill Cunningham, a spokesman for the Cook County sheriff’s office, said Saturday. “She said she wanted to make a clean break and end things immediately.”
The gift shop clerk, who moved to the Chicago area after her marriage in May to grocer Dignesh Solanki was reported missing last Monday by her family after her car was found running with the door open near a dam on the Des Plaines River.
Solanki met with investigators Friday night and told them she and a friend, Karan C. Jani, 23, began a 30-hour drive Monday to California, where Solanki planned to find an apartment and a roommate in Los Angeles and start over.
Her husband was not abusive or cruel, but she was unhappy and regretted getting married, Cunningham said.
She told officials she never meant to deceive anyone or to make people believe she had fallen into the river.
Her reappearance came after days of tedious searches of the river in the cold. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart estimated the search cost taxpayers $250,000.