Lost at Kumbh 5 years ago, woman reunited with kin at Maha Kumbh
MS Nawaz TNN
Haridwar 08.04.2021
In 2016, Krishna Devi got lost at the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. Her family kept looking, filed a missing person complaint and published ads, but no leads came up. Five years on, a routine identity verification drive for another Kumbh Mela — the ongoing Maha Kumbh — suddenly led to the 65-year-old woman in Rishikesh, now reunited with her family at long last.
Krishna Devi’s story goes back to the loss of her daughter in 2016. “Her younger daughter had died. She left home to go to Haridwar. The Ardh Kumbh Mela was on,” sub-inspector of Kumbh Msela police in Rishikesh Deepak Rawat told TOI. Disillusioned and overcome with grief, she drifted away.
Just as the Maha Kumbh Mela started, police launched an identity verification drive. At Triveni Ghat shelter home, they came across Krishna Devi. When they ran her records, they found a missing person complaint from five years ago. Mela police got in touch with their counterparts in Udaipur, where the complaint had been lodged. Her identity confirmed, her family was told she had been found.
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