Our Correspondent
Imphal, April 16 (EMN): A man from Khumbong Mamang Leikai in Imphal west district who left home 40 years ago was recently spotted in Mumbai and is likely to be brought back home during the week.
According to family sources, Khomdram Gambhir, a former rifleman in the Manipur Rifles and previously married but separated three months after he went missing, had left home without informing anyone sometime in the year 1978. Gambhir is third among six siblings, it was informed.
A year later his family had even gone to Mizoram but his whereabouts was not known until one day a person by the name Leichonbam Romen, a resident of Khumbong shared a video of Gambhir in a local WhatsAp group called "Khumbong E-pao" (Khumbong news) on Cheiraoba- Manipuri new year day which falls on April 14.
The video was shared by Romen's engineer friend A Dinamani, who is presently an assistant professor at the Nerist in Itanagar after a street photographer Firoze reportedly uploaded the video on YouTube in October 2017.
Gambhir's family with help from the locality is trying to bring back their brother from Mumbai in a week's time. Police sources in Imphal said Gambhir was safe in Mumbai police's custody.
Now two police officers from Patsoi police station along with Kullachandra and another family member are planning to go to Mumbai on April 18.
Not only the family members but locals and neighbours are joyful about the news of Gambhir's whereabouts.
K Momon (68) who is a neighbour of Gambhir expressed joy. "He must be around 66 years by now," Momon said.
