While various quarters are demanding a ban on the mobile application TikTok for its “objectionable” content, the Chinese-app has helped a woman in Villupuram find her husband who went missing three years ago.
According to a police officer, Suresh and Jayapradha were married for six years and had two children. In 2016, following a family discord, Suresh left home and did not return. Jayapradha then lodged a complaint with the Villupuram taluk police, requesting them to trace him. Meanwhile, a week ago, one of Jayapradha’s relatives found a video on TikTok, in which a person resembling Suresh was seen with a transperson, later identified as Rosy.
He showed the video to Jayapradha, who confirmed that he was her husband and approached the police again.
The police then showed the video clip to representatives of the Association of Community Empowerment, a non-governmental organisation based in Villupuram, who traced Suresh and the transperson to Hosur in Krishnagiri disrict.
B. Salima, president of the NGO, said one of the group members identified the transperson in the video as Rosy, who was based in Hosur.
Preliminary inquiries by the police revealed that Suresh had joined a private tractor company in Hosur. Later, he met Rosy and married her. The police counselled them and helped Suresh reunite with his family.