Mumbai police’s ‘Operation Muskan’ cheered a Malad-based family whose 10-year-old child, who has a mental illness, went missing on January 1. With dedicated efforts, officers of Crime Branch Unit XII found the child within 36 hours. The child was found on a footpath outside Mumbai Central station on Wednesday afternoon.

According to police sources, the child lives in a chawl near the station in Malad East. He went missing around 12.15 pm on January 1. Owing to his mental illness, the child cannot communicate very well.