The local nagar panchayat and police in Patna have initiated a preliminary inquiry to examine the circumstances in which a death certificate was issued in the name of Sanjay Kumar, 44, a mentally ill man who had gone missing four years ago.

mid-day in its article ‘Mentally ill homeless man ‘returns from dead’’ dated November 2, had highlighted how Sanjay was ultimately reunited with his kin. The man, who had been found loitering in Kerala, was sent by a rehabilitation centre at Kasaragod to the Shraddha Rehabilitation Centre at Karjat a few months ago. In June 2020, the local police handed over a body of an accident victim, which was later cremated.