Tamil Nadu: 84-year-old man who lost his way home, reunited with family

CHENNAI: For Kandasamy, the pavement had been his home for the past five days until a police team rescued him on Tuesday night. The 84-year-old who had lost his way home slept on the roadside, eating what he got from good samaritans.
A team from the Foreshore police station noticed the man lying on the pavement soaked in rain and took him to inspector Rajeshwari. Hard of hearing, he was not able to recollect anything .
After offering him tea, police checked the small bag he was carrying and found a phone number written on a small piece of paper and Rs 25,000 in cash.
When police tried reaching the number, the calls went unanswered. Initially, he said he was a resident of a neighbourhood in Mylapore and a police team went there and searched for the house but in vain. They then decided to admit him to a home, when they received calls from the number they had rung earler. The caller gave his name as Vijayaraghavan and identified the elderly man as his father Kandasamy. Vijayaraghavan told police that his father went missing on June 18, when he went out to a temple and that he had lodged a complaint with the Virugambakkam police. On Wednesday, his family members came and took him home. They thanked police for reuniting them with him.
Kandasamy’s family had been living in Mylapore a decade ago and later shifted to Virugambakkam. “I asked him [Vijayaraghavan] not to let his father step out of the house alone as his eyesight is poor," said inspector Rajeshwari.