NEW DELHI: A 77-year-old NRI went missing from a hotel in Sarojini Nagar on Thursday. An alert was sounded in southwest Delhi and a search launched for the septuagenarian who had come to India to visit the Kartarpur corridor. The chase ended 24 hours later at Delhi Cantonment. Manoj C, DCP (Southwest) said that a woman had filed a complaint about her husband going missing from the hotel. “The elderly NRI had a mental weakness and frequently forgot things. The photograph of the missing man was circulated in the WhatsApp groups of police stations,” said the DCP. Nearby hospitals in south and southwest Delhi were contacted to find out whether any accident victims had been admitted. “While analysing the CCTV footage, we saw the man leaving the hotel, going to Moti Bagh and other places. He was last seen near Palika Bhawan in RK Puram,” DCP Manoj said. Six teams were formed under Devender Kumar, SHO of Sarojini Nagar police station. Policemen showed people the missing man’s photo and asked people if they had seen him. “A few people identified the victim but said the man had not revealed anything about himself to them,” an officer said. The police teams visited hospitals, places of worship and popular spots, but drew a blank. The search finally ended on Friday morning when police received a call from army officers about a suspect they had caught roaming near a restricted area in the cantonment. The cops went there and during verification, identified the man as the NRI who had gone missing. “He was initially thought to have been a spy trying to enter the restricted area,” an officer said. “Later, after the cops told army officials about his medical condition, they let him off.” The senior citizen was wearing slippers from the hotel. From Delhi Cantt, a video call was made to his wife, who was relieved on seeing her husband, who was a civil engineer once. The couple belonged to Hoshiyarpur in Punjab, but had left the country for the United States several years ago.
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