Nine days after his girlfriend was last seen on an Indian beach, Andrew Jordan has expressed his fear that she has been snatched.

Appealing to the Government for help finding him find his Latvian partner Liga Skromane, her 42-year-old Irish boyfriend suspects that she has been kidnapped.

His 33-year-old girlfriend had been in Kerala since February to attend a healing centre with her sister Ilze when she disappeared on March 18.

Mr Jordan, 42, from Swords in Dublin, has flown to south India to search for Ms Skromane. The couple have been dating since meeting at a festival in Cork four years ago and she had been living with him in Swords. Her sister Ilze also lives in Cork.

After spending all day putting up posters, speaking to locals and doing interviews with Kerala journalists, he told a local station of his fear that she had been taken.

‘We reached out to the police and were assured that they will get her in two days. It’s been nine days now,’ he told NDTV.

Liga had travelled to a healing centre in Kerala with Ilze for treatment for post-traumatic depression. They were staying at Dharma Ayurvedic and Healing Centre in Pothencode in Thiruvananthapuram since February 21. She only had one week to go in treatment and was due to return to Ireland.

On the day of her disappearance, Liga is said to have left a local health centre to buy cigarettes but never came back.

Andrew and Liga’s sister both suspect that she has been kidnapped and family members have announced a reward of one lakh( €113) for anyone who gives information.

@SushmaSwaraj Latvian Citizen Liga Skromane already missing for 9 days! Police still clueless, representatives of parliament getting involved to understand why issue was not addressed appropriately from the beginning pic.twitter.com/dTLXe9YNpd — Ilze Skromane (@pilzeilze) March 23, 2018

Pleading for information on her sister, Ilze told NDTV: ‘The police, I think, initially kept thinking that she will return by herself and that she must have gone away for a while.

‘We suspect something else. We believe she must have been taken away by a group that is not letting her off.

‘We need help in locating her. We came to Kerala for her to be cured, because doctors in our country couldn’t find any answers to her illness.’