Elderly man resurfaces to collect documents for SIR in UP, presumed death

After nearly three decades of silence, a septuagenarian man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown, Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district to collect documents for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal, where he is settled for the past many years.

Sharif Ahmad (79), who had gone ‘missing’ since 1997 when he moved to West Bengal



following his second marriage after the death of his first wife, arrived in his hometown on December 29 to collect documents for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, his nephew Waseem Ahmad told media.

“We tried to trace him over the years, even travelled to West Bengal and followed up the address provided by his second wife, but all attempts failed,” Waseem said.