On April 22, when Nurjahan was in Hyderabad, she met an NRI engineer who works in the US and appealed for help in Hindi. After hearing her story, the engineer gave her Rs 1000 and handed over her to the police. When contacted, the engineer, requesting anonymity, said: "I couldn't follow what she was saying, and hence called my wife to converse with her. Our only concern was to send her back, and hence I dialled 100 to reach local police station. Two police personnel came in a bike near a temple and took her away in an autorickshaw.” According to him, Nurjahan told him that "she has a sister living in Chennai whom she had met and hugged recently." According the engineer’s wife, "she held a fake Aadhar card in which her name was mentioned Rita."