Himachal man who lost his memory reunited with family after 45 years

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A 16-year-old lad from Himachal's Sirmaur district, who went missing aft losing his representation owed to a caput injury, was reunited with his household members aft 45 years pursuing different caput bump that brought his representation back.

Heart-touching scenes were witnessed erstwhile Rikhi, present known arsenic Ravi Chaudhary, returned to his autochthonal Nadi village, adjacent Nahan, past week, on with his woman and children. The household members of Rikhi were successful tears arsenic they believed that helium was nary more.

Rikhi was fixed a lukewarm invited with philharmonic instruments and flowers by his household members and villagers arsenic helium reunited with his member and sisters— Durga Ram, Chander Mohan, Chandramani, Kaushalya Devi, Kala Devi and Sumitra Devi— who were successful tears to spot him live aft much than 4 decades.

Rikhi was moving astatine a edifice successful Haryana's Yamunanagar erstwhile helium met with a large roadworthy mishap during a travel to Ambala. He sustained a caput wounded and went missing backmost successful 1980.

The caput wounded was truthful sedate that it resulted successful implicit representation wipeout, with Rishi adjacent forgetting his individuality and name. Later, his friends named him Ravi Chaudhary.

With nary representation of his past, Rikhi moved to Mumbai, survived by doing tiny jobs and aboriginal settled successful Maharashtra's Nanded aft helium started moving successful a college. Later, helium got joined to his wife, Santoshi and has 3 kids, including 2 daughters and a son.

However, a fewer months back, different caput wounded changed his beingness again. The Old faded images of a mango histrion successful his village, Nadi, constrictive paths and the courtyard of a location successful a spot called Sataun started arsenic memories.

Rikhi sought assistance from a assemblage pupil to find Sataun, and they came crossed a telephone fig of a cafe portion searching for Nadi colony and Sataun connected Google.

Rikhi called the fig and interacted with a idiosyncratic named Rudra Prakash. As the connection travelled, 1 of Rikhi's relatives, M.K. Chaubey, acknowledged Rikhi's faded past, and helium was agreed with his household members successful Nadi aft different details were correlated.

"Though thing is impossible, specified cases of representation restoration aft wounded person been seldom documented, and the nonstop origin could beryllium known aft aesculapian probe of the brain", intelligence wellness adept Dr. Aaditya Sharma told PTI connected Friday (November 21, 2025).

Published - November 21, 2025 12:37 p.m. IST

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