Mangalore: Missing Nepali student reunited with family after 9 years

Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (EP)

Mangalore, Sep 18: In a heart-warming incident, a young man from Nepal who had gone missing in Delhi nine years ago, has been reunited with his family.

Sanjeeb, a student of Nepal origin who had come to Delhi for studies in hotel management had gone missing from Delhi in the year 2004. His family had given up hopes of finding him after an intense search went vain.

However, a letter received by them after so many years has brought great joy to the Sanjeeb family in Nepal. Sanjeeb, who they had thought to be dead, has been reunited with the family. On receiving information that their son was in Talapady Thuminadu on the Kerala border, his relatives have come to meet him.
 

Snehalaya that became the bridge of love

The organization that became a bridge between Sundarpura, a small village in Nepal and Talapady, is Snehalaya Charitable Trust that engages in treating and sheltering destitutes and mentally ill people. For the last one-and-half years, Joseph Crasta of Snehalaya Trust has taken care of a mentally ill person found on the roadside at Talapady.
 
The youth who got cured and came to his senses after prolonged treatment, informed his name and address, which enabled the concerned to contact his people at Sunderapura in Nepal. His younger brother Suraj Dalal and uncle Ganesh Acharya have come to Thuminudu as per the information.
 
Sanjeeb's brother Suraj Dalal spoke during a press conference and said, “Nine years ago when Sanjeeb completed his PUC, he was sent for hotel management studies with his relative to an institute in Delhi. However, Sanjeeb went missing within a day. All efforts by family and friends failed. We had lost hopes of tracing him. However with the help and care of Snehalaya, Sanjeeb is now ready for a new life. "
 
Not knowing his real name, Snehalaya had named him 'Siddu'. He was sent back with his family on Wednesday, September 18.

Joseph, managing trustee of Snehalaya, said that Snehalaya has the satisfaction of treating more than 25 people from Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, and other states, and uniting them with their families.
 
The institute is run with donations and has a full fledged psychiatric hospital at Manjeshwar Pavoor and an old age home.