12 yrs on,missing youth traced through Orkut

Angered by the dressing-downs from his parents,a college-goer had walked out of his home in 1998. His family filed a police complaint,which was moved to the dossier of unsolved missing cases a year later. A few months ago,a relative of the youth found a profile in social networking website Orkut. It looked like that of Jimmy,son of V V Koruthu of Pathanamthitta in Central Kerala.

Koruthu had filed another missing complaint with the police this January. After a months search in the cyber world,the state police traced Jimmy to Chennai and handed him over to his family on Tuesday. According to state cyber police inspector E S Bijumon,this was the first incident in Kerala of a missing man being traced via cyber investigation. Since the missing youths profile appeared on Orkut,the police handed over the case to the cyber cell. While the police located the Internet café from where the profile was created,the cafe was found shut. It then identified the IP address of the computers used to log on to his Yahoo id. They then found the café in Chennai where Jimmy came for surfing. The cafe had his snapshot,address and mobile number. The police finally found Jimmy working as a call centre executive in Chennai.