Jharkhand Man Reported Missing Amid Lockdown, Presumed Dead, Returns Home

When the lockdown was announced in March 2020, he set out to return home like other migrant labourers. But he reached Teleganan's Khammam district instead of Jharkhand.

A man from Jharkhand, reported missing since the coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown last year and presumed dead by his family, was reunited with them due to the efforts of a Telangana-based non-profit, officials said today. Marcus, a resident of Jharkhand's Simdega district, had gone to work in Goa in February 2020, they said. When the lockdown was announced in March 2020, he set out to return home like other migrant labourers. But he reached Teleganan's Khammam district instead of Jharkhand. Unable to find shelter in a new place amid the lockdown, and allegedly subjected to abuse by people, the 45-year-old man suffered a mental breakdown and was handed over by the district administration to a non-governmental organisation (NGO) run by Dr Annam Srinivasan.