The Hindu : AP boy restored to mother

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Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh

AP boy restored to mother

By Our Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM Oct. 14. The four-year-old boy from Andhra Pradesh, Manikantan, who was rescued by Kerala police from Kottayam KSRTC bus stand last Tuesday, was restored to his mother today. His mother who arrived along with her brother-in-law by the Kerala Express today noon from Vijayawada, had no difficulty in identifying the boy from the crowd that had assembled at the Poor Boys Home at Kanjikkuzhi where the boy, Manikantan has been housed during the past one week.

According to the mother, Venkila Lakshmi, she along with her mother had taken Manikantan to the Durga temple in Visakhapatnam on October 5. The boy was entrusted to their relative Ujal Rao while they were engrossed in pooja. However, when the mother and daughter came back, the boy along with Rao was missing. They then filed a complaint with the Vishakhapatnam police.

According to the police, they spotted the boy at the KSRTC station while Rao tried to abandon the child who was sleeping. Both of them were taken to Kottayam West Police Station and later the boy was shifted to the Poor Boys Home whose director Dr. Saramma mathew could converse with the boy in Telugu, making things easier for the police. The boy will be taken by his mother and uncle to Vijayawada on Wednesday.

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