Updated On: 07 February, 2023 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
He had walked out of the family home some months ago due to an issue; the family buried a person whom they had wrongly identified as him

Rafiq Shaikh had been working at an ashram in Dahanu. Pic/Hanif Patel
The Shaikh family from Palghar were grieving a member whom they lost in a railway accident last month. But on Sunday, he called his wife! It turns out that the Shaikhs had buried someone who looked like him. The Palghar GRP are now trying to identify the person buried by them.
According to the police, on January 19 this year a man of around 55 years, who was crossing the railway tracks at Palghar, met with an accident and died on the spot. The Palghar Government Railway Police registered an accidental death report, but nobody claimed the body. The police then circulated photos of the deceased on their website and also on social media to find the family of the deceased.