Catching police unawares, kids & woman return from the dead

Raipur: Much to the shock and disbelief of a man in Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh, his wife and two minor daughters, who went missing a year ago and whose unclaimed bodies he had buried, walked home recently with a story of being lured into a job trap with promises of a better life by agents who held them captive in Rajasthan.
The woman claims she managed to flee from Rajasthan after and reached her parents in Jharkhand and later they facilitated her return to her husband, Abul Hasan, a tailor.
Hasan’s wife Rabia, 35, and daughters, Sejra Parveen (6) and Gulsta Parveen (3) left their home in the Pasta region after a dispute with him on Aug 8, 2023. When Hasan could not trace them, he filed a missing person’s report.
Six days later, on Aug 14, 2023, police found the bodies of a woman and two girls from the Dehjari River in Raigarh district. Police, aware of Hasan’s report about his missing wife and daughters, contacted him to identify the bodies. Though unsure, Hasan, under emotional stress, identified the bodies to be of his wife and children due to their physical resemblance. He performed the last rites of the bodies. The case took an unexpected turn when in May, Rabia contacted her family in Jharkhand.
She revealed that after leaving home, she had gone to Ambikapur, where some agents took her and children to Rajasthan on the promise of a good job and better pay. Once in Rajasthan, they were held captive and forced to work under poor conditions and underpaid. Somehow In late April 2024, Rabia managed to escape with her daughters and contacted her family in Jharkhand.
Following their return, Hasan has recently notified the police on Friday. Now police are faced with the dilemma of identifying the bodies that were mistakenly buried. With the real Rabia and her daughters alive, Raigarh police have said that they will reopen the case to determine the identities of the deceased woman and children.