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Lucknow: A married man with a child had formed the perfect plan of faking his disappearance in order to elope with his lover. However, a 'social' snag resulted in his discovery.
For the past seven years Jitendra, a resident of Attamau village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, who worked as a labourer at a factory in Punjab, remained untraceable leading his family members and others to believe that he might have died. The police had even also closed the matter.
But an Instagram reel brought the truth to light a few days back.
Jitendra’s wife happened to see the reel and found that his ‘missing’ husband had, in fact, been happily living with another woman. She immediately informed the cops and now the police have reopened the missing case file and launched a fresh investigation into the matter.
According to the police, Jitendra got married with Sheelu in 2017. After a year, Jitendra suddenly went ‘missing’. A missing report was lodged with the police and efforts were made to trace him. His wife was pregnant, when he had gone ‘missing’.
Sheelu told the cops that, while surfing Instagram, she saw a reel purportedly showing her husband with a woman. She also claimed that her husband had been living in Ludhiana town in Punjab.
A police official said in Hardoi that the matter was being investigated and that Jitendra would be brought back in the next few days.