PURI, Jan. 20 -- An engineer, who had come to public notice for sitting with a begging bowl on the Bada Danda (Grand Road) here to earn his living, was rescued and taken back home by his brother and sister on Sunday.

After some verbal exchanges with him, they lifted him from ground picking his hand and then took him by a bike.

They didn't divulge their names as they did not like others to know why their brother chose begging for livelihood and was living in exile for over last two decades.

Reportedly, Girija Shankar Mishra, an engineer in Plastic Technology from the CIPET, had been spending life as a beggar for about 20 years after leaving home. Earlier, he was working in a multinational plastic company in Mumbai.

The matter came to lig...