A 25-year-old techie from Bengaluru who went missing while trekking with a group in Kumaraparvatha on Sunday was found on Tuesday afternoon.
Santhosh, who is from Gayatri Nagar in Bengaluru, was found in healthy condition, according to police officials, who coordinated a massive search operation looking for the trekker. "He was found at a house in Devaragadde. He is in healthy condition apart from leech bites on his legs. He was transferred to a hospital for a checkup," confirmed a police official from Subramanya Police Station.
Santhosh, who works at a private firm in Bengaluru, went missing on Sunday around 4.30 pm. He was part of a group of 12 friends trekking to Kumarparvatha from Somwarpet in Kodagu district.
The group arrived in Subramanya for the trek on Saturday. After camping in the forest that night, the group split into two groups of six persons. One group, which included Santhosh, ascended the peak on Sunday.
It was while descending from the peak at around 4.30 pm in the evening that Santhosh was separated from his friends. "He went ahead by about 10 minutes and in Bhattramane, a place where there are two roads in opposite directions, he took the right turn instead of the left turn,” said Darshan, who was also part of the trekkers group.
After Santhosh went missing, forest department officials began a search for him on Sunday night. The search continued all day on Monday without any luck and a member of the group filed a police complaint at the Subramanya police station. The search for Santhosh involved police officials and forest department officials, aside from his friends.
He was found on Tuesday after he took shelter in a house in Devaragadde. The people in the house informed the search officials.