Jharkhand man cycles 600km in 24 days, finds missing wife in West Bengal

Jamshedpur | Wednesday | 14th February, 2018

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His wife Anita went missing on January 14 from her parents' home in Kumrasol village, where she had gone for Makar Sankranti. Kharagpur police sent photos over WhatsApp to their Musabani counterparts, who in turn summoned Manohar for his wife's identification. JAMSHEDPUR: A 42-year-old labourer from Jharkhand, who travelled about 600km on his bicycle looking for his missing wife, was finally reunited with her in West Bengal 's Kharagpur last week.In the quest to find his wife, Manohar Nayak - from Musabani's Baligoda village - pedalled 25km daily across 65 villages for 24 days. When cops couldn't provide any leads, Manohar decided to travel across the state to search for Anita, who is mentally unstable and unable to speak properly. "When she didn't return for two days, I filed a police complaint with Musabani and Dumaria police stations," said Manohar, who works as a daily wage labourer in Odisha..