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 light two days ago when Mishra was interrogated by police here following his scuffle with a woman beggar regarding a theft of money. He came to be known as an engineer after he lodged a police complaint in English. The matter was widely published in the media. Aged about 50, Mishra is unmarried. His father was a DSP and both parents are dead.
It is still a mystery to know how the engineer lost his job and chose begging for livelihood.
