Jharkhand Man Cycles Through 65 Villages To Find Missing Wife

A man from Jharkhand travelled across 65 villages on his cycle to find his mentally-unstable wife. The hard work paid off. He found her off a national highway near Kharagpur in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal.

The man, Manohar Nayak, worked as a construction labourer in Odisha. He would leave his wife and 14-year-old son at her house in order to go to work. On January 11th, she ventured out of her house, but forgot her way back. So Manohar quit his job and set out to find her. He filed a missing person's report but didn’t wait around for the police. He set out with his bicycle and her picture.

Her picture was also in the newspaper and someone identified her after a month and took her to the Kharagpur police station.

Nayak travelled around 30-40 km every day, asking locals if they had seen his wife. He kept a passport sized photo of her in his pocket

“I was tired searching for her on my bicycle for the past one month but never lost hope. I am grateful to police of both the states. I now want to take her back home on my bicycle,” he said.

“She could not say where she came from. Some locals who rescued her identified her through photographs on local media. We contacted the Jharkhand Police, and they confirmed it was the same woman who went missing on January 11 from Musabani police station area,” a senior official of the Kharagpur police station said.

In 2016, a man had searched for his wife for over nine months after she had gone missing in Uttar Pradesh.

An unusual love story from rural India on this Valentine's Day, talk about dedication!

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