The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : How they found their missing child

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

How they found their missing child

Staff Reporter

`His relatives went around in an auto with loudspeakers announcing that Vikas was missing'

Bangalore: A novel way of looking for their missing son, helped this family get him back.

On Monday, when most parts of the city were closed down and the streets were empty because of the bandh, four-year-old Vikas, who was playing in front of his uncle's house in Azad Nagar on Mysore Road, suddenly went missing in the evening. Vikas, a resident of Mandya, had come to the city with his mother to see his cousin.

His mother and other family members were panic-stricken as Vikas was new to Bangalore. They rushed to the Chamarajpet Police Station but the police, reportedly, did not file a complaint.

Meanwhile, the police personnel at the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Outpost Police station found Vikas at the Kempegowda Bus station and took him to the staff members of BOSCO, an organisation that works with street children. BOSCO representatives tried to get some information from him but being new to Bangalore he could not tell them much.

"His relatives found a novel method to trace him. They put loudspeakers on an auto and went around town announcing that Vikas was missing and seeking his whereabouts. A concerned citizen saw them at Chamarajpet and referred them to BOSCO Mane," Fr. George P.S. of BOSCO said.

Their happiness knew no bounds when they saw Vikas playing with other children at BOSCO Mane. "We had almost lost hope. Maybe if a complaint had been lodged with the police, it would have been easier to trace the child," Vikas' uncle Thimmappa, said.

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