Perambalur police rescue 24 wandering mentally ill persons in one year, reunite 11 of them with their family

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In December 2nd week past year, a Perambalur constabulary squad rescued a astir 40-year-old mentally sick pistillate recovered wandering astatine Elambalur and its surrounding areas successful the territory and handed them implicit to a backstage location for the mentally sick present to instrumentality attraction of her.

Treatment coupled with sustained counselling enabled successful establishing the individuality of the pistillate and ascertaining the whereabouts of her household members. More than a period aft the pistillate was admitted to the home, she was reunited with her hubby successful aboriginal February done a associated effort of the police, wellness department, and the backstage home.

On Wednesday, different wandering mentally sick pistillate from Villupuram territory admitted to the aforesaid location was reunited with her sister station treatment.  These 2 incidents are among the bid of akin missions carried retired by the Anti Child Trafficking Unit of the Perambalur Police successful rescuing wandering mentally sick persons from antithetic places successful the territory and reuniting immoderate of them with their respective household members aft establishing the genuineness.

The Perambalur constabulary successful the past 1 twelvemonth had rescued 24 wandering mentally sick persons and successfully reunited 11 of them, including 7 women with their respective household members aft making strenuous efforts. Some of the reunited persons were from different States.  Every clip a mentally sick wandering idiosyncratic is recovered during patrolling, they are instantly rescued and taken to the backstage location for the mentally sick functioning adjacent Perambalur, said constabulary sources. 

In galore instances specified rescued persons neither cognize their names oregon the spot they hail from. It is lone aft providing them a harmless situation successful the home where they are provided with food, bed, and capable remainder coupled with attraction by a authorities psychiatrist and counselling by the societal workers that they begin to dilatory disclose who they are and informatioh astir their household members, said the sources.

Basic aesculapian screening of specified persons are done with enactment from the Health Department erstwhile they are brought to the location to find retired their carnal information and to ascertain if they had immoderate different ailments. The attraction begins accordingly by the psychiatrist who makes a sojourn erstwhile a week to the location to find the intelligence wellness information of the diligent and the advancement made, the sources said. 

The societal workers begin to support a rapport dilatory with the rescued persons to ascertain the whereabouts of their household members successful an effort to reunite them.  It is aft a dilatory and dependable process that the whereabouts of the household members get to beryllium known and conveyed to them.

The rescued persons are reunited with their household members aft completion of attraction and signs of improvements and aft meticulously ascertaining the genuineness by checking the applicable documents successful their possession, the sources said. Counselling would beryllium done for the household members to bash a travel up of the information of the reunited persons.

Published - February 19, 2026 08:30 p.m. IST

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