Andhra Pradesh: Kurnool police help woman reunite with family after 21 years

Sridevi went missing at the Hyderabad railway station in 2001

The Kurnool police on Wednesday helped a 35-year-old woman, Katta Sridevi, re-unite with her family members after 21 years.

Superintendent of Police Ch. Sudheer Kumar Reddy at a press conference here, said that Sridevi, who went missing at the Hyderabad railway station in 2001, when she had gone to see her elder sister Shyamala in that city., unknowingly boarded a train to Ahmedabad and lost touch with other family members, who were living at Alampur in Telangana at that time.

Shyamala and her husband Nagaraju, who now drives an autorickshaw, filed a complaint with the Hyderabad police, but no progress was made so far.

Sridevi, reportedly with an unstable mind, could not tell her parents’ name or from where she hailed, and wandered on the streets of Ahmedabad for some time before the Mother Teresa Charitable Organisation in Ahmedabad gave her shelter and got her treated there, but not much progress was made to identify her parents.

About 20 days ago, she was admitted to the Parul Sevashram in Vadodara and the doctors there could elicit her name and she talked about Alampur and Kurnool.

The Ahmedabad police, in turn, got in touch with Kurnool police, who with the help of Disha and Special Police wing, located her father, Katta Nagishetti, 75, who is currently living in Devamada village of C. Belegal Mandal in the district with the help of a photo sent by the Parul Sevashram. 

Disha police sub-inspector Jayamma and C. Belegal head constable Nageswara Rao along with Sridevi’s sister and brother-in-law went to Ahmedabad, after iling a missing case in the Kurnool Taluka Police Station, and brought the woman back to Kurnool.