According to Beena, then Bindu, she along with her parents had gone to Thiruvananthapuram in 1985, and while returning a stranger kidnapped her from near a bus stand for ornaments.
The man held her captive in a house for nearly six months and left her alone wandering, in a village near the Kerala capital, she said.
As her Tamil was alien in the area, she was adopted by a kind Muslim couple--Tajuddin and Subaida-- who looked after her as their own daughter.
She was renamed as Beena. She got married some 12 years ago to a daily wager and has two children.
Beena is waiting to see her parents eagerly and left photos for identification with newspaper offices, police said.
