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A Gujarat family was left in shock when the person they believed to be dead walked into the prayer meet held in his memory days after the body had been cremated.
Brijesh Suthar, 43, went missing from his home in Naroda in the western state on October 27. When his family could not locate him, they filed a missing persons case and on November 10, almost two weeks since the disappearance, a body was recovered near the Sabarmati bridge there, NDTV reported.
When members of the family were called to identify the corpse, they presumed it was Suthar's given the physical likeliness.
The publication, citing media reports, said that the man was battling mental health problems and was stressed due to his financial investments as well.
"...police showed us a body, it was swollen, we misidentified it and performed the cremation," his mother told the publication, while another relative said he was depressed.
Suthar's reappearance has now caused a complication for the police and has raised questions about whose body was cremated.
While police are probing whose body it was, Suthar's family is struggling with the unexpected reunion. Where Suthar was during the time he disappeared remains unknown.