barasat a chance encounter with a visitor at a classified advertisementreceiving centre reunited a youth with his father who had been missing for a week anupam ghosh from barasat had frantically been searching for his octogenarian father baidyanath ghosh who had dementia and had not returned home since march 4 baidyanath was a former employee at the state irrigation department after lodging a missing persons diary at the police station anupam had gone to place an advertisement in a newspaper for his father when a visitor there identified his father from the photograph he was carryingi was describing my father at the classified advertisement counter and showing them the photograph when amit majumder a local youth overheard the conversation and asked to see the photograph he said he had seem someone similar and asked me not to place the ad till i met this man said anupam majumder who visits jagulia in nadia for business had heard about an old man who was found wandering on nh 34 rescued by local youths and kept at a health centre there after speaking to anupam he called up his friends who told him the elderly person was still at the jagulia health centre about 30 km from barasatanupam immediately hired a car and the two reached the health centre they met a local youth bhaskar saha who reunited anupam with his father we asked him about his family and address but he could only say his own name sometimes he said he was from basirhat and sometimes barasat he had wounds on one hand we took him to hospital said saha the locals visited baidyanath at the hospital twice a day we could figure the man was from a descent family he was always polite said saha