Kapurthala:
Think about mourning the lack of a cherished one, performing their final rites and prayer ceremony, solely to find days later that they’re alive.
That’s precisely what occurred to a household in Punjab’s Kapurthala, the place grief became pleasure after a telephone name from the jail revealed that the son they believed to be lifeless was truly alive and lodged in jail.
The household acquired the sudden name practically 15 days after they’d cremated a physique they believed was that of their lacking son, Ravi Kumar.
In keeping with preliminary data, Ravi Kumar left dwelling on August 5 and didn’t return. His father and brother stated they looked for him on their very own however couldn’t discover any hint of him.
When their efforts failed, the household approached Kapurthala Metropolis Police Station on August 11 and filed a lacking particular person report.
In the meantime, police knowledgeable the household {that a} burnt physique of a younger man had been discovered. The household was proven images of the person. A number of days later, relations and different individuals recognized the physique as Ravi Kumar’s.
Believing their son had died, the household carried out his cremation on August 13.
Nevertheless, the story took an sudden activate September 2, when the household acquired a telephone name from an worker of Central Jail in Kapurthala. They have been knowledgeable {that a} man named Ravi Kumar was lodged within the jail.
Notably, Kumar had been arrested by Jalandhar Police a few month earlier in a loitering-related case and was lodged within the Central Jail.
The data left the household shocked and confused. The subsequent day, they visited the jail and have been overjoyed to seek out Ravi Kumar alive.
