Missing mentally challenged person from Rajasthan found in Mangaluru, reunited with family
Mangaluru: A 32-year-old mentally challenged man Mahesh, who was wandering on the streets of Mangaluru for the last few years and was causing a nuisance to the general public on the streets, was recently reunited with his family from Rajasthan by a local NGO.
Mangaluru North (Bunder) Police Station, over the last three years, had received several complaints about the man and his behavior on the streets but had failed to catch him as he used to escape every time the police would try to take him under the custody.
A local resident of Car Street in the city, Narayan on July 27 informed about the man to Asif 'Apadbhandawa', who runs a rehabilitation center in Mulki. Asif reached Car Street with Salam and Aftab. They took the mentally challenged man into confidence, cleaned him, and gave haircut and shave. They also dressed him neatly before shifting him to their rehabilitation center. Unknowing of his identity, Asif named him 'Raju'.
After a month-long psychiatric intervention at 'Maimuna Foundation Apadbhandawa Psycho Rehabilitation Cente', Mahesh recovered. He said he knew his parents' phone number and asked the caretaker to dial. Over a phone call, when he said "I'm Mahesh", his father began weeping listening to his voice after over three years, Asif said.
Mahesh hails from Luni village of Jodhpur district in Rajasthan. According to his far-relative, Mahesh is a well-educated person and had been appointed as an officer in the Railways. As his mental health deteriorated, he went missing from Mumbai in 2017 and landed in Mangaluru. Since then he has been roaming the streets, throwing stones at people, and causing trouble to locals.
As soon as his family was informed of his whereabouts, they informed the Patel community including his far-relative in Mangaluru. His family is about to reach Mangaluru by flight today to take him home. Due to delay in the flight connection, Mahesh was handed over to his far-relatives in the presence of Circle Inspector Govind Raju B and representatives of Anjana Patel Samaj at Mangaluru North (Bunder) Police Station on Thursday, September 10.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
