20 October,2023 05:43 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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The Thane Police have rescued two boys and their eight-year-old sister a day after they went missing from their home in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Friday, according to the PTI.
The news agency reported, the boys, aged 12 and 11, and their sister had left their house in Kalyan town of Thane district to go to school on Wednesday morning but did not return back home, senior inspector Ashok Honmane told the PTI.
Their parents went looking for the children and later filed a missing person's report with the police on Thursday morning, following which the police teams were dispatched to Kalyan, Thane and Khadavli to trace them, he said.
In one of the CCTV footage from Kalyan railway station, the police spotted the children boarding a train to Kasara and later found them at Khadavli station, the official said, as per the PTI.
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The children were rescued and reunited with their parents, he said.
Meanwhile, in an another incident earlier this week, a 12-year-old deaf- mute boy was reunited with his mother 15 days after going missing, all thanks to a T-shirt he was wearing that had a politician's name printed on it. "My son left the house on September 28 to roam around in the nearby area as he usually does. But this time when he did not return till late, we started searching for him everywhere. Finally, when we could not find him, we approached Bhandup police station on October 2," the mother said.
According to the police, the boy had worn a T-shirt that had a BJP leader's name printed on it, which helped the police trace the boy. Patil said, "Someone called me from Bhiwandi saying they had found a boy who is unable to communicate and seemed lost. He said the boy was wearing a T-shirt that has my name on it. I inquired in the area and found his mother's number and called her. The caller then made a video call and the mother identified the boy. We went to Bhiwandi late night on October 10 and reunited the boy with his mother," said Patil.
(with PTI inputs)
