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Friday, July 13, 2012

Queens woman who vanished Sunday found alive and well in Texas

Rajwinder Kaur was found alive in Texas.

A missing 26-year-old Queens woman, who may have run away to escape plans for an arranged marriage, been found alive and well in Texas, law enforcement sources said Thursday.

Rajwinder Kaur’s family was thankful and relieved she had been located, but shot down the idea of planned nuptials.

“There’s no truth to it at all,” said Kaur’s brother Gary Atwal. “In our family we’re very open... we’ve never stopped her from anything. Both of my sisters have been married at their own will so why would we be arranging for our third sister to be married?”

Kaur was found by police in Austin, Texas, Thursday afternoon, sources said. After leaving Brooklyn, she first traveled Syracuse, where she caught a bus to Austin. A friend there alerted authorities to her whereabouts.

Atwal said plans were in the works for a family member to meet her in the Lone Star State.

Relatives thought she had been harmed after her younger sister received an eerie text message just two hours after she left their Hollis home on Sunday.

The text read “The girl with this phone is dead was smiling," according to an older sister, Lucky Kaur, 29.

As she left home about 8 p.m. Sunday, Rajwinder Kaur told her family she was heading to Brooklyn where she volunteered helping the homeless.

At the time, sources said detectives were exploring the possibility that the woman had joined a cult, citing that she recently sold many of her belongings on eBay.

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