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Missing Odisha Man Returns Alive After Family Cremates Body
Sanatan Naik disappeared from his village in Odisha.
His family searched for him but could not find him.
Police later found a body in a paddy field.
Because the body was badly decomposed, the family identified it mostly by its clothes.
They believed it was Sanatan and held a funeral.
About a month after he disappeared, the family learned that Sanatan was alive.
His relatives brought him home from a police outpost.
Officials have not yet explained whose body the family cremated.
Sanatan Naik, 29, went missing from Barsinga village on July 17 after leaving by bicycle.
Police later recovered a decomposed unidentified body from a paddy field near Kunua village.
Sanatan’s family identified the body mainly from its clothes and cremated it.
Nearly a month after his disappearance, officials informed the family that Sanatan was alive.
The case has raised questions about whose body was cremated and why the identification failed.
- Who
- Sanatan Naik, his family, and local police officials were involved.
- What
- A missing man returned alive nearly a month after his family cremated an unidentified body they believed was his.
- Where
- He disappeared from Barsinga village in Dhenkanal’s Hindol area; the body was found near Kunua village, and Sanatan was located at Joranda outpost.
- When
- Sanatan disappeared on July 17; the body was recovered 10 days later, and he was found alive about a month after his disappearance.
- Why
- The family believed the unidentified, decomposed body was Sanatan’s based mainly on its clothing.
Key facts
- Missing man
- Sanatan Naik, 29
- Village
- Barsinga village under Balimi police limits
- Disappearance
- July 17, after leaving home on a bicycle
- Body recovered
- Ten days later from a paddy field near Kunua village
- Identification basis
- The family relied mainly on the body’s clothes
- Funeral
- The family cremated the body and performed the Suddhikriya ritual
- Discovery
- Sanatan was reported alive from Joranda outpost nearly a month later
Quotes
Manju Naik
Sanatan Naik’s mother
“After he left home on the 17th, we thought he had gone to a relative’s house and would return. But even after several days, he did not come back. We kept hoping that our son would return someday.”
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