Rhea Gupta was an infant girl, about six weeks old, when she was last seen on February 10, 2011, in McLean, Virginia. Official missing-child and missing-person listings identify her as female, of Asian and Indian descent, with brown hair and brown eyes. Her case has been listed by NamUs as Missing Person case MP20346 and by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children under NCMEC case number 1198975.
The public record describes a very young child whose earliest months became bound to an international search, with McLean in Fairfax County serving as the last known place connected to her before she disappeared from public view.
The central circumstance reported by official child-protection sources is that Rhea was allegedly taken by her mother, Priyanka Agarwal, on February 10, 2011. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children states that a federal warrant for International Parental Kidnapping was issued for Priyanka Agarwal on April 2, 2014. Public notices have also stated that Rhea may be in the company of her mother and that the two may have traveled to India, a detail repeated across official and missing-person case summaries. Those descriptions have framed the case not as a disappearance into complete anonymity, but as a suspected family-abduction case with a possible international dimension, making the search dependent not only on local awareness in Virginia but also on recognition across borders.
Because Rhea was so young when she was last seen, public case materials have relied on later photographs rather than a complete set of images from the time she disappeared. Older public notices described a photograph taken in July 2012, while the current NCMEC poster states that the displayed photograph was taken sometime in 2023. That detail is significant because it suggests investigators and child-protection agencies have continued updating the public-facing record as newer identifying material became available. Even so, the basic identifying information has remained consistent: Rhea is described as a female child of Indian descent, with brown hair and brown eyes, connected to McLean, Virginia, and last seen on February 10, 2011.
The agencies connected to the case have included the Fairfax County Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with NamUs listing Fairfax County Police as the investigating agency and NCMEC maintaining the missing-child poster. The FBI connection is especially important given the reported federal warrant for International Parental Kidnapping and the possibility that Rhea and her mother may have left the United States. Public reports have not provided a detailed day-by-day account of what happened after Rhea was last seen, and the available official information remains careful and limited: she was last seen in McLean, she may be with her mother, they may have traveled to India, and the search has remained tied to both local law enforcement and national child-recovery resources.
Rhea’s case is ultimately the story of a child who vanished from McLean, Virginia, at the very beginning of her life, leaving investigators and the public with a small number of essential facts and a long-running need for recognition. She was last seen on February 10, 2011; she was an infant female of Indian descent with brown hair and brown eyes; authorities reported that she may have been with her mother, Priyanka Agarwal; and official child-recovery notices have stated that they may have traveled to India. The overview of the case is one of enduring uncertainty: a baby girl became the subject of a missing-child investigation, official agencies continued to circulate her information and update her image, and the public record has remained focused on identifying her, locating her, and resolving what happened after she disappeared from McLean.Last Seen: Feb 10, 2011
