On April 30, 2023, one Thane family marked a grim memory. It has been five years since Kunhi Krishnan Nair who would be 79 now, left his Thane West home on April 30, 2018, at 3 pm to go to his daughter Dr Sini Panicker’s in-laws’ home, a familiar 10-minute walking route that he took quite regularly. That is why Nair’s wife Sushila was not worried when he set off. Yet, after he did not return for three hours, growing anxiety escalated to panic.

Krishnan has been missing ever since, now for five agonisingly long years for his loved ones.  Krishnan’s children, a son, Sudeesh Nair, a chartered accountant (CA), lived in Toronto, Canada.  Daughter Dr Sini Panicker Muscat-based anaesthesiologist was overseas at that time. Krishnan and his wife lived at Hiranandani Estate in Thane. He had taken voluntary retirement from the Indian Air Force in 1979, after which he worked as a security officer at the Tata Cancer Hospital, Parel, for years. This paper had carried a report on September 18, 2021, about Krishnan simply ‘vanishing’ after leaving home.