‘Dead’ man returns home in Dungarpur after five months

JAIPUR: A 24-year-old man from Chaurasi village of Dungarpur district who went missing in Gujarat and was believed to be dead, shocked everyone while he was found to be alive after five months. The family not only believed he was dead after they were handed over a body having the same tattoo he had, his wife also implicated his two brothers for murder.
The story of the young man Ishwar is nothing less than a thrilling Bollywood script.
TOI on Thursday spoke to Dhambola police in Gujarat to know the whole story.
“He was earning daily wages as labourer at a village near Junagarh in Gujarat. His family from Dungarpur came in the first week of February this year and lodged a missing complaint as they were unable to get in touch with him,” said a senior officer of Dhambola police while talking to TOI over phone.
“On February 6 police found a mutilated body which was beyond identification but it had a tattoo on its right hand on which the name Ishar was written. We intimated the family members who were in Dungarpur. The wife after her arrival and his family members after seeing the tattoo and other resemblances identified him to be Ishar and we had given them the body,” said an officer.
During the wife of the deceased Ishar suspected that his two brothers could be behind the murder, “The two brothers are in jail on the charges of murder. Now the family has claimed that the man who was believed to be dead is actually alive and they are approaching courts. We have told them to come with Ishwar so that we can do paper formalities,” the officer added.
Ishar was living at Khapheda village of of Dhambola police station area in Gujarat. “He has stated that he could not contact the family as his phone was lost and he did not recall any numbers of his home. He had planned a visit at his home in March but due to lockdown he could not move,” police officer added.
Ishar visited his sister-in-law’s home on Tuesday and that’s when villagers came to know that he is alive.