50-year-old man lodges complaint 10 years after wife goes missing

MANGALORE: In perhaps a late realization that wife is the real "better half" in life, a 50-year-old man from Thokkottu near here has filed a police complaint that his wife is missing for the last 10 years. The man wants the police to trace her as he badly needed her to look after his needs as he was bed-ridden after a recent accident in which his legs were fractured. In his complaint at the Ullal police station, Annappa Naik said his wife Kasturi had "disappeared" from his house 10 years ago and never returned, police said. The man did not file a missing complaint all these years when he was living alone. Naik felt the absence of his wife after he suffered the fracture and found it difficult to move without the help of others. The complaint was being looked into, police said. -TOI