Mumbai: Cops reunite missing woman with family

The police team with Aarti Costa, who was reunited with her mother

The Juhu police reunited a 32-year-old mentally challenged woman, who had been missing from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh since last December, with her family. The police traced her family with the help of an LIC agent's visiting card found in her bag. The woman was identified as Aarti Costa. On Saturday, Costa's mother, Jayanti, arrived in Mumbai and met her daughter after almost three months and took her back home. The police said that doctors confirmed that Aarti was mentally challenged.

Investigation officer PSI Santosh Dhavle of Juhu Police station, said, "On March 8, we received a call from a local that a woman has been living in an autorickshaw for many days near Jain Temple at SV Road, Santa Cruz West. We took her to the police station and asked about her family and home address. But, the woman was not responding to any of our questions. We contacted the LIC agent whose card we found, and sent him a photograph of the woman. The agent shared the photo of the woman on a common LIC chat group." It's then that another agent replied and informed the Costa family about their daughter. "Jayanti told us that on December 10, Aarti suddenly disappeared from their home. The family had registered a missing complaint with the Jabalpur police on the same day," Dhavle said.