Aizawl, Nov. 21 -- A 58-year-old man reported missing from Zemabawk North in Aizawl has been traced - only for authorities to discover that he had been lodged in Aizawl Central Jail for more than a week.
Sources said the man, identified as Thangluaia, had been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on November 11 in a drug-related case. He was remanded to judicial custody the same day, even as anxious relatives and neighbours were still searching for him across the city.
Thangluaia had left home on his scooter and failed to return, prompting his family to file a missing-person report and the locality to launch a coordinated search. The case gained attention after local leaders circulated contact numbers in the media and appealed f...