43-year-old Brijesh Suthar, known locally as Pintu, had been missing from the Mehsana district of Gujarat for many weeks. In a bizarre twist of fate, this Gujarat man who was assumed dead walked into his own funeral or memorial service to the shock of his tearful family in Mehsana district, Gujarat.
Brijesh, who suffered from mental health issues and was under pressure due to losses in the stock market, was declared missing by his family from his residence in Ahmedabad on October 27. His agitated family approached the Naroda police with a complaint.
On November 10, police found a decomposed body beside Sabarmati Bridge and called Brijesh’s family to identify it. As the body had decomposed beyond recognition, some relatives, even his brother-in-law, also misidentified it as Brijesh.
Gujarat man assumed dead: What happened next?
The family held final rites and did a memorial service in Vijapur on November 14. When people gathered for the memorial service, Brijesh walked into the ceremony, alive, and shocked everyone.
“We looked everywhere and lodged a complaint as Brijesh did not return,” his mother said. “When the police showed us a body, we identified it as his because it was swollen and unrecognizable.” In a state of an awful reunio, this shocking reappearance has raised questions for both the family and authorities. Police revealed that the unidentified body had undergone a postmortem before being handed over to the family.
The Naroda police opened their probe into the body whose identity they had earlier surmised to be Brijesh. Such a bizarre mix-up poses challenges towards identifying decomposed bodies and falls within the further issue of emotional trauma caused by such mistakes to families.
Even as relief prevails among the people on Brijesh’s return, the case leaves behind one question-what happened to the body, which someone else accepted while no one knew whose it was. The authorities are making some efforts to unravel the mystery, even as the Suthar family is trying to cope with the unexpected twists of their tragedy.
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