The police have traced a 68-year-old Mauritian national, Liladhur Ramdhun (68), who went missing from the city on December 28.

Following information from a tailor in Rajahmundry, the Mauritian High Commission in New Delhi on Thursday intimated a police team in Chennai and his son Kevin Ramdhun, a scientist, who had come down to the city in search of his father, that Mr. Ramdhun had been found.

He came to the city on December 28 with wife Indralitee Ramdhun and her sister Soonwantee Luchumun for a trip. When Ramdhun, who had gone for a walk, did not return to the hotel, his wife lodged a complaint. Mambalam police took up the case for investigation.

The family was worried as he only knew Mauritian creole, Bhojpuri and a bit of Hindi. The police searched hospitals, railway stations and other places.

According to Kevin, his father who went for a walk crossed the road near the hotel and lost his way.

He asked people for help to locate his hotel but no one understood what he said. When he went to a police station for help, he was chased away since no one understood the language he spoke, Kevin said.

For six days, he wandered around the city, slept on bus stands and did not eat. On the sixth day, he reached Central Railway Station, where somebody misled him and he boarded a train bound for Andhra Pradesh.

He got down at Rajahmundry and took shelter with Ravi, a tailor. Ravi sought assistance from the police there who were of no help. Finally, Ravi managed to call an official of the Mauritian High Commission in New Delhi after he understood what Ramdhun uttered in broken Hindi.

The Mambalam police team and Kevin went to Rajahmundry and brought him back to the city on Friday.