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Ch­agua­nas school­teacher and fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Ko­mal Ma­haraj, 41, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day, was found alive and un­harmed yes­ter­day evening at a ho­tel in St He­le­na.

Po­lice of­fi­cers went to the Pi­ar­co Touch Down Ho­tel af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion from near­by res­i­dents and dis­cov­ered Ma­haraj alone in a room. A se­nior of­fi­cer told Guardian Me­dia that there were no signs he had been held against his will or had suf­fered any in­juries, lead­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors to be­lieve he may have been there vol­un­tar­i­ly.

Ma­haraj was tak­en to a near­by health fa­cil­i­ty for med­ical at­ten­tion be­fore be­ing placed in po­lice cus­tody for ques­tion­ing last night.