Mahesh Singh Mehra was reunited with his mother on January 8
PANAJI: On January 8, when 20-year-old Mahesh Singh Mehra crossed the 12m-long ‘jhula’ over the Kali from Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh to Nepal with his mother Manmati at around 7pm, it was the end of a six-year-old search to reunite the mentally challenged youth with his family.
From the streets of Calangute, where Mahesh was abandoned by his alcoholic father in 2014, to Apna Ghar the state childcare home and then finally to Jhulaghat on the Indo-Nepal border early this month, it was the culmination of a long and arduous mission.
No one knows when Mahesh was brought to Goa by his father, nor was any missing complaint filed. And when Mahesh first entered Apna Ghar, he only spoke Nepali