Missing NRI from Padubidri found in Chennai-Bengaluru train

Mangaluru, Oct 9: A month after he went missing under mysterious circumstances, Abubacker Padubidri, a non-resident Indian from Padubidri in Udupi district, has finally been traced.

Later, he was brought back to Mangaluru in a car by the Crime Branch Police, who are yet to find out the truth behind the missing case.

Abubacker, a supervisor at the Al-Sadhan Hyper Market in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, had come home with his wife and children in August on a short vacation. He was staying in the house of his brother-in-law Ismail in Jokatte in Mangaluru taluk.

On September 10, he left for Mangaluru city reportedly to reschedule his return ticket to Saudi Arabia. He was supposed to report for work before Eid-ul-Adha. However, he had planned to extend the vacation for a few days and celebrate the festival in India.

On the same day, Abubacker contacted his wife over phone around 2 p.m. from Mangaluru and told her that he would go to Padubidri to see his mother and other family members and then come back. But, he neither visited his mother's home at Padubidri nor returned to Jokatte.

The family members had started searching for him after finding that his mobile phone had been switched off. Ismail had filed a missing compliant with Panambur police the next day.

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