AI Helps Reunite Missing Maharashtra Woman With Family After 2.5 Years

A 45-year-old woman who had wandered away from her home in a mentally distressed condition was reunited with her family in Maharashtra's Parbhani district after two-and-a-half years by a social organisation that used AI tools to trace her hometown, officials said on Saturday.Julekha Mukheed Shaikh had been admitted to Sanvita Ashram in Pandur, Sindhudurg, on April 3, 2024, following an order from a Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Mumbai's Kurla, issued at the request of the Colaba police and a probation officer at the Government Women's Beggars' Home in Chembur, an official release said.Efforts to locate her family gathered pace after Kisan Choure, trustee of Jeevan Aanand Sanstha, and his team held regular conversations with Shaikh to get clues about her background.