Biratnagar, May 16
You have seen a lot of dead people returning to life. What do you do if this happens in real life?
Recently, a young man in the Jhapa district of eastern Nepal surprised everyone in his family and community as he returned home one day after the family completed nearly two-week-long death rites following the ritual.
Suraj Karki (29), a resident of Goldhap, Haldibari rural municipality-1 of the district, had been residing at Kotihom, a religious institution providing refuge to sanyasis and the homeless, in Kankai municipality-4 of the district.
On April 25, the police found a man dead in the Kankai area. Although the deceased could not be identified, someone told the police that he was a Karki.
Helpless to identify the body and hand it over to the family, the police disseminated the reported information, which brought Suraj Karki’s sister to Kotihom.
The sister identified the body as her brother’s and everyone believed her. The family performed the funeral and subsequent rituals at Kotihom itself.
The rituals were over on May 9, but Suraj Karki reached his home on May 10.
It means the mystery is not solved yet and the Jhapa police are investigating who died on April 25.
