<p>Muzaffarnagar (UP): After nearly three decades of silence, a septuagenarian man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown Khatauli in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Uttar%20Pradesh">Muzaffarnagar</a> district to collect documents for the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=SIR">Special Intensive Revision</a> of electoral rolls in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=West%20Bengal">West Bengal</a>, where he is settled for the past many years.</p>.<p>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 PTI.</p>.Uttar Pradesh: Man dies, daughter 'reduced to bones' as servants lock them in room for three years.<p>“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.</p>.<p>“With no contact for decades, his four daughters and the family assumed that he was no longer alive,” he added.</p>.<p>Sharif said he returned to his hometown to collect documents related to the SIR exercise in Bengal, which compelled him to re-establish contact with his native place.</p>.<p>During his visit, he found that many of his close family members, including his father and brother, had passed away.</p>.2.89 crore names deleted from voter list in SIR exercise in Uttar Pradesh.<p>The emotional reunion brought joy to the family, Waseem said.</p>.<p>“Seeing him after so many years was a deeply moving experience for all of us,” he said.</p>.<p>After the brief visit, Sharif returned to West Bengal’s Medinipur district, where he lives with his family, to complete the SIR formalities. </p>
<p>Muzaffarnagar (UP): After nearly three decades of silence, a septuagenarian man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown Khatauli in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Uttar%20Pradesh">Muzaffarnagar</a> district to collect documents for the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=SIR">Special Intensive Revision</a> of electoral rolls in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=West%20Bengal">West Bengal</a>, where he is settled for the past many years.</p>.<p>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 PTI.</p>.Uttar Pradesh: Man dies, daughter 'reduced to bones' as servants lock them in room for three years.<p>“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.</p>.<p>“With no contact for decades, his four daughters and the family assumed that he was no longer alive,” he added.</p>.<p>Sharif said he returned to his hometown to collect documents related to the SIR exercise in Bengal, which compelled him to re-establish contact with his native place.</p>.<p>During his visit, he found that many of his close family members, including his father and brother, had passed away.</p>.2.89 crore names deleted from voter list in SIR exercise in Uttar Pradesh.<p>The emotional reunion brought joy to the family, Waseem said.</p>.<p>“Seeing him after so many years was a deeply moving experience for all of us,” he said.</p>.<p>After the brief visit, Sharif returned to West Bengal’s Medinipur district, where he lives with his family, to complete the SIR formalities. </p>