Archive · 7 Dec 2025
Pune Hospital Reunites Man with Family After 11 Years
Shivam went missing during the 2013 Kedarnath floods and was presumed dead.
He was later found in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, with no memory of how he got there.
In 2021, he was wrongly accused of theft and sent to a mental hospital.
The hospital staff helped find his family by learning about his school in Roorkee.
After being declared innocent, Shivam was reunited with his brother.
The hospital has helped many other mentally ill inmates find their families and get better.
Shivam went missing during the 2013 Kedarnath floods and was presumed dead.
He was found in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, in 2021 and wrongly accused of theft.
Sent to Pune’s Regional Mental Hospital (RMH) for treatment of disorganised schizophrenia.
Hospital staff discovered his school in Roorkee and found his family.
Shivam was declared innocent in 2024 and reunited with his brother.
- Who
- Shivam, a 55-year-old man with polio and disorganised schizophrenia
- What
- Reunited with his family after being missing for 11 years
- When
- Reunited on Friday (specific date not mentioned)
- Where
- Pune’s Regional Mental Hospital (RMH) and Roorkee, Uttarakhand
- Why
- Shivam was wrongly accused of theft and sent to a mental hospital, where staff helped reunite him with his family
- Name
- Shivam
- Age
- 55
- Condition
- Disorganised schizophrenia and polio
- Hospital
- Pune’s Regional Mental Hospital (RMH)
- School
- Prem Vidyalaya in Roorkee
- Case Outcome
- Declared innocent in 2024
- Rehabilitation Efforts
- 400 mentally-ill inmates rehabilitated in recent years