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Eluru couple helps Tamil boy reunite with parents

G. Nagaraja

Arul likely to leave for native place today

ELURU: Kindness knows no bounds. This adage sums up the benevolence of an Eluru-based couple that gave shelter to a little Tamil boy. For the boy, Arul of Pandyanagar in Tirupur mandal of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, who went missing and reached the city a few days ago, this place has become a home away from home. Arul would not have had a reunion with his parents, but for the good Samaritans Kodise Vishnumohan and his wife Manga.

The couple treated the boy as one of their two kids all through. Vishnumohan, who runs a roadside kiosk, found the boy weeping in a corner of the street and brought him home last Saturday. In no time, Arul with his innocent looks and pranks became close to Vishnumohan's four-member family. "The boy is like our adopted son now and we don't know how to spend time if he leaves us to join his parents," Manga told The Hindu .

Stranded at station

"My uncle Sarvan brought me here in a train from our native place. Asking me to sit on a bench in the railway station, he went to purchase a return ticket but never returned," Arul, an LKG student of a private school, recalls. "He even took away my gold ring," he complains. The boy walked along the railway track for more than a km and reached the track-side Bhavisettivaripet. He said his father Sattivelu and mother Subbalakshmi work in a textile shop in his native place.

Superintendent of Police M. Jaganmohan Reddy offered to help the boy return to his parents. The SP established contact with the Sub Inspector of Perumanalluru under which the boy's native village falls and deputed a couple of constables to escort him to Pandyanagar and hand him over to his parents in the presence of the Perumanalluru police. The boy is likely to leave for his native place on Friday and meet his parents the next day.

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