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RPF cops make sense of special child's scribble, reunite him with his family

The rescue act started after the RPF personnel at Karjat were alerted by main control at CST, that a child was travelling in the Kolhapur-CST Shyadri express without a proper ticket.

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The child’s scribble that RPF deciphered and led the kid to his kin
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A special child who had found himself lost in a train, a few earnest Railway Protection Force (RPF) cops and five hours of trying to make sense of the lost child's scribbling on a piece of paper was at the centre of a child rescue drama at Karjat station all through Thursday morning.

The rescue act started after the RPF personnel at Karjat were alerted by main control at CST, that a child was travelling in the Kolhapur-CST Shyadri express without a proper ticket.

At 9:50am, the RPF team, led by sub-inspector Jai Singh, head constable DD Patil, constables Dilip Dhole, NS Patil, entered the train when it stopped at Karjat, and took the child under their wing.

"It was clear that the child was a special one as he was having difficulty trying to concentrate as well comprehend the questions that we were asking him. Moreover, unlike normal children he didn't seem scared of being alone either. He was in his own world," said a senior RPF officer.

The tough part began once he was brought to the RPF post at the station. While it is tough to ferret information from normal children, who tend to run away on an impulse, doing the same with a special child is even more difficult.

"We asked him to write down any numbers that he could remember but as much as he tried, he was unable to write any phone number that was a complete set of 8 or 10 digits. He was also having trouble pronouncing his own name as well as those of his family members," explained an officer.

The team of RPF personnel then tried to call the numbers that the lost child was writing, but all of them were in vain. "He was trying to write some particular number because in all the numbers that he was writing, a few digits and sequences were common. Piecing them together, we managed to call one number which, luckily for us, turned out to be that of his father," said the officer.

The child, it turned out, had been missing from his Aarey Colony, Goregaon (East) home since Tuesday, and a missing complaint had been filed with the Goregaon police. He was finally reunited with his father at around 5pm on Thursday.

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