Jharkhand family buries wrong body after mistaken identity; missing man returns alive

Key points

• Days after Vishram Munda went missing, his family conducted the last rites only to see him return home in Jharkhand's Khunti district after a sojourn around 70 km away in Ramgarh.
• Officials on Wednesday (May 20, 2026) said the burial conducted by the family was the result of them mistakenly identifying a body that police had recovered as that of Munda's.
• Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Khunti Varun Rajak told Press Trust of India (PTI) on Wednesday (May 20, 2026) that 45-year-old Munda, a native of Patratoli village, had gone missing on May 10 after he left home to attend a wedding.
• "His family searched extensively but could not trace him.
• A day later, police recovered an unidentified body from a drain.