Positive things now happening to the crisis-stricken shelter home. Kumari Sureshwati, native of Gurgaon (Haryana) who was living in Dehradun-based Nari Niketan for the last two years, was handed over to her family members on Tuesday. She was reported to be not in the right frame of her mind, had disappeared from Haridwar in 2014 when she reached along with her father from Haryana to take a dip in Ganga River.
State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) SSP P Renuka Devi said that she had recently sought data highlighting names and addresses of inmates, living in various shelter homes of the state from social welfare department to find out their addresses and send them back in their respective homes.
Renuka said that to find out the address of inmate Sureshwati, she had recently approached SSP, SCRB, Haryana and provided him about inmate’s village name and other informations related to her.
Haryana police acted swiftly and ascertained her village and other details of inmate. Family members were informed about the inmate over mobile phone and invited them to reach Dehradun to take back her home.
Inmate’s family members reached Dehradun and the inmate was handed over to them after completing legal formalities. According to family member, inmate along with her father had reached Haridwar to take a dip in Ganga river on March 20, 2014. She was mentally ill. After taking bath in Ganga, her father had spotted her at a place near Har ki Pauri and went for bringing tea for her. When he returned back the same place, he found she had disappeared. Since then, she was staying in Dehradun-based Nari Niketan.
It should be mentioned here that the SCRB Uttarakhand team helped the social welfare department officers to find the address of inmate S Hamsaveni, natives of Tamil Nadu and she was later handed over to her family members. She has been living in Uttarakhand-based shelter homes for the last 12 years.