Overview
- Pawar left home after a dispute in 2016 while working at a hospital in Vikramgadh and had remained untraceable.
- He was located in Delhi on Saturday and brought back to his family, police said.
- Investigators reopened cold files under the Palghar campaign Operation Muskan-14 led by Superintendent of Police Yatish Deshmukh.
- Wada police inspector Dattatray Kindre said technical leads, human sources and social media traces guided the search.
- Pawar is a resident of Ahilyanagar, and officers reported his parents were overjoyed at the reunion.