India, Nov. 6 -- A 25-year-old man in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur district, who was believed to have died, has returned home, days after his family performed the last rites for a body of an unidentified man under the mistaken impression that it was him, police said.

Purushottam, a resident of Chanderpur village, had been missing for two days when the police retrieved an unidentified man from a well in the Manpur area of Surajpur on November 1. The information was circulated to the nearby villages for identification.

Purushottam's family had reported him missing to the police after they could not locate him and came across the information about the body. They identified the dead man as Purushottam. The body was handed over to them, and the l...