3 years on, Assamese man to reunite with family

In another success story by the Tamil Nadu State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB), one more mentally deranged youth will be getting back to his family after a gap of three years and roaming the streets of Chennai unable to recollect details of his past. This is the 59th person who will be united with his family with the help of the SCRB this year. Stephen Hembrom was found roaming the Triplicane area in a mentally deranged condition by the Triplicane police on March 25 this year and was later handed over to East Eden Home, a government registered home run by an NGO at Manapakkam. The home authorities provided psychiatric care for the patient and he limped back to normalcy. When Stephen recollected his roots and his home address, the home authorities contacted the SCRB authorities for a follow up. “When he gave us his address, we found it to be under the Gossegaon police limits in Kokrajar district. We then contacted the police station and provided the address. We sent his photographs on WhatsApp to the police officials there and they tracked his address and confirmed his identity,” Sahira, inspector with the SCRB said. 

Stephen Hembrom’s parents were no more and he had been living with his wife Poornima Mardi and children Joseph Hembrom (12) and Mariam Hembrom (10). “Poornima identified her husband after seeing the photographs. Since she could not undertake a three-day long train journey along with her kids, she gave a request to the Kokrajar district SP to bring her husband home,” the inspector said. The SP then deputed two policemen, ASI Enush Ali and constable Krishnakanth Singh to come to Chennai and take back Stephen. The policemen reached Chennai on Thursday with a letter from the district SP and Stephen was handed over to them by the SCRB authorities. Stephen will be taken by train to Assam from Chennai Egmore on Thursday. “It is a three-day journey from Chennai to Assam and he will be meeting his wife and children after three long years. He does not know how he got to Chennai and we did not force him to recollect those details as it may relapse his condition. We are happy he is going home,” the inspector added.