Veteran Ghazal singer of Hyderabad Pandit Vitthal Rao, who had the distinction of singing for the erstwhile Nizam of Hyderabad, had a tragic end when he was found dead in a city hospital one month after he had gone missing.
Vitthal Rao, who was recently honoured by Telangana Government, went missing on May 29 during his pilgrimage to the temple town of Shirdi in Maharashtra. He had gone there with his daughter but had lost his way.
Though police found 86-year-old Vitthal Rao lying outside Begumpet railway station in Hyderabad on June 24 and he was rushed to Gandhi Hospital where he died of heart attack unidentified by anybody. While his relatives were frantically searching for him and had put up posters with his photo at many places including police stations, his body remain unclaimed in the mortuary of the hospital till the relatives were asked to come to the mortuary for identification.