The team, comprising API Rekha Bhanage, PSI Radhika Patil, and Constables Trupti Chavan, Tejaswini Kamble, and Rakhi Rajput, rushed to the location and brought Mehta to the police station. She was offered food and water, and while checking her handbag, the team found R2 lakh in cash
The woman, Pramilaben Vyas, 74 (third from left), along with her daughter Neeta Mehta (fourth from left) and the Bhoiwada police team
A 74-year-old woman with partial memory loss was found outside KEM Hospital by the Bhoiwada police on June 4. The woman, who had been missing for days, was carrying Rs 2 lakh in cash and had travelled from Ahmedabad to Mumbai.
She reportedly lost her memory after arriving at Borivli railway station and had been sleeping on the streets since.
The woman, later identified as Pramilaben Vyas, a resident of Sanskar Nagar in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, had spent at least three nights outside the hospital. It was Constable Sanjay Kashinath Pote of Bhoiwada police station who spotted her lying on the roadside and alerted the Nirbhaya team.
The team, comprising API Rekha Bhanage, PSI Radhika Patil, and Constables Trupti Chavan, Tejaswini Kamble, and Rakhi Rajput, rushed to the location and brought Mehta to the police station. She was offered food and water, and while checking her handbag, the team found R2 lakh in cash.
“She could only recall her name, Pramilaben, and that she was from Sanskar Nagar. We were surprised to see someone with such a large amount of money sleeping on the streets,” said a police officer.
While going through her belongings, the officers found a piece of paper with a mobile number written on it. “We dialled the number and learned it belonged to Bhupendra Joshi, her cable operator in Ahmedabad. Joshi helped us contact her family,” the officer added.
The police were then able to get in touch with her daughter, Neeta Mehta, who lives in Mulund. “We did a video call with her, and she confirmed that the woman was her mother. We reunited them and returned the R2 lakh in cash,” the officer said.
Further investigation revealed that Pramilaben had an argument with her daughter-in-law, and hence she left the house and withdrew the R2 lakh before heading to Mumbai to see her daughter. However, she suffered memory loss after reaching the city and could only remember her name and neighbourhood.
The case was handled under the supervision of Additional Commissioner of Police Vikram Deshmane, DCP Ragasudha R, and ACP Ghanshyam Palange. A team led by Senior Inspector Sachin Kadam was tasked with tracing her identity and family.
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No. of nights Pramilaben spent outside the hospital
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