WhatsApp Reunites 48-Year-Old Man With Family After 20 Years

WhatsApp is a place of exchanging information, but this time it has played the role of a platform which made an estranged man reunite with his family after 20 long years. The man 48 year old Mahaveer Singh Chauhan works in Bengaluru, South India.

Pradyuman, Chauhans’ 24-year-old son on meeting his father, called the incident “Unbelievable” and was ecstatic over the reunion.

Pradyuman told an Indian daily newspaper Times Of India (TOI), “It’s unbelievable. We thought we had lost him. Destiny works mysterious ways. My mother always believed he will come back one day.”

Chauhan also could not hold back his tears upon seeing his son and said, “I’m free of all my guilt today; take me back to the land where I belong.”

Mahaveer Singh Chauhan had relinquished his family in Dec. 1998 to escape the embarrsment that emerged from a huge loss in his business at Mumbai in the State of Maharashtra. He originally was from Jhab village in Rajasthan, where his father, his wife and two sons live. Later Chauhan came to Bengaluru and worked in different profiles like a gardener, chauffeur, salesman, photographer and a supervisor, local daily TOI reported.

Chauhan was admitted to a local hospital Saturday after he fell unconscious at a rose farm at Doddaballapura, Bengaluru, where he worked as a supervisor. Ravi and Kishore Kumar Daftary, Chauhan’s friends, rushed him to a hospital for medical assistance. The doctors at the hospital suspected a spinal injury and transferred Chauhan to another hospital.

His condition then became critical prompting his friends to take a picture of him and circuate it in different groups on WhatsApp in a hope to find someone from his family.

The miracle happened when Pradyuman called up Ravi and Daftary by 6pm (local time) Saturday, enquiring about his father. Praduyman identified his father from Chauhan's driving licence which was also circulated on WhatsApp as his identity proof. Praduyman took a flight to Bengaluru and soon was in front of his father whom he had last seen when he was a 4-year-old kid.

Ravi and Daftary had not reveled their plan to Chauhan and everything came as a surprise to him. Chauhan never spoke much about his family to anyone and also never wanted to go back to his village. “Mahaveer rarely spoke about his family. What I got to know from him all these years, was that he was married and had two children and that his father was a man of stature,” said Daftary to TOI.

But after the reunion, Chauhan has now shown his interest in going back to the soil he belonged to.