Mentally unwell woman from Bihar found in Maharashtra; reunited with kin

A 35yearold mentally ill woman who had been missing from her home in Bihar for several years has been reunited with her family thanks to a Maharashtrabased humanitarian groupKhusboo Devi of Sayyadpur village in Begusarai district Bihar was found on a street in Murud Latur district on July 1 2023 with injuries to her head and body reported PTIAccording to the reportRahul Patil Chakurkar a member of the Religion to Responsibility Foundation and Murud deputy sarpanch Hanumant Nagtilak assisted with her identification and careAfter receiving initial treatment at a hospital in Latur the woman was transported to the Divya Seva Sankalp shelter home in Buldhana district for additional care the report addedAccording to the news agency report afterregaining her health she divulged information about her hometown which led to the finding of her family with the help of a Biharbased nongovernmental organisationThe woman was reunited with her family in Bihar after being separated for an extended period of time thanks to the Buldhanabased NGO the report addedMan reunited with family after 19 yearsIn another incident from 2022 Bateshwar Pannalal Jaiswal a 70yearold Cuffe Parade man was reunited with his wife and three sons after 19 years of missing from their Ambedkar Nagar house Jaiswal went missing in 2003 causing his wife Pushpa to submit a missing person report at the Cuffe Parade Police Station Despite police efforts he remained undetected due to a lack of clues and valuable CCTV evidence a midday report statedThe report stated that Pushpa never gave up hope In 2015 she acquired a police document verifying Jaiswals status as missingPushpa received a call from an unknown number in November 2022 and the caller claimed to be her spouse but was unable to locate her She quickly notified the local police who began a search based on technical factsThe call was tracked to Mohit Hospital in Borivli East where a police team led by ASI Arvind Sawant found Jaiswal who was employed as a guard Using minimal information the police recognised him with the assistance of his family who knew him from imagesJaiswal reportedly left his home after a disagreement with his wife over domestic concerns He had been working as a guard at Borivli and had some health problems He recently got his wifes phone number from someone in Cuffe Parade which led to their reconciliationJaiswals family suffered during his absence as his youngest son was barely 20 when he left home The police have offered Jaiswal counselling and arranged for a psychologist to help him adjust