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After remaining hostage for 45 days successful Sudan, 36-year-old Adarsh Behera from Odisha returned to the State connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025), bringing alleviation and cheer to his household and well-wishers.
Welcoming his harmless return, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said the State Government had taken the substance with utmost seriousness from the infinitesimal it was informed astir Mr. Behera’s disappearance.
In a station connected X, Mr. Majhi said, "It is simply a substance of immense joyousness that Adarsh Kumar Behera, a young Odia antheral from Jagatsinghpur territory who had gone missing successful Sudan, is returning to his homeland safely. We had been continuously coordinating with the Ministry of External Affairs to guarantee his harmless rescue. Through the swift actions of the Government of India and practice with planetary mediators, Adarsh is returning to his household today."
Mr. Majhi thanked the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy successful Sudan for this palmy mission. "The information and well-being of each Odia, whether wrong the authorities oregon abroad, is the apical precedence of our government. In times of crisis, we are ever and everlastingly by your side," helium said.
Mr. Behera had gone missing from Al-Fashir metropolis successful Sudan’s North Darfur State. The Indian Government secured his merchandise with the assistance of planetary interlocutors, a elder authoritative said.
Upon his release, Mr. Behera, who was received by his household including his three-year-old lad astatine the Biju Patnaik planetary airdrome astatine Bhubaneswar said, "It is simply a rebirth for me. I was not expecting to stay live aft being abducted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia successful Sudan. They tortured maine a lot, denied nutrient for days and enactment successful a jailhouse and forced to locomotion successful jungle. Thank God that they did not termination me. Everything was imaginable for them," helium told reporters.
Mr. Behera, who hails from Kotakana colony successful Jagatsinghpur district, went to the civilian war-torn Sudan successful 2022 and worked arsenic a mechanic successful a integrative factory.
After being released from captivity, Mr. Behera travelled from Abu Dhabi to Hyderabad precocious connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) nighttime and reached Bhubaneswar airdrome connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) morning.
Jagatsinghpur MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai said helium had raised the contented successful Lok Sabha and urged the Ministry of External Affairs to intervene for Mr. Behera's harmless release.
Mr. Behera’s woman said, "I would petition the Odisha Government and Chief Minister Majhi to put an employment for my hubby successful immoderate integrative mill successful the State truthful that helium would not necessitate to spell different state for eking a living."
