The kid was reunited along with his father on the police station, police mentioned
Mumbai:
A pendant with a QR code helped police reunite a mentally challenged 12-year-old boy along with his mother and father, a Mumbai police official mentioned on Friday.
The kid was noticed wandering in Colaba within the southern a part of the town on Thursday afternoon, he mentioned.
”The kid was not capable of inform something cohesively to individuals who approached him after realising he could also be misplaced and in misery. One in every of them introduced him to a policeman. An alert a couple of lacking particular person was despatched to all police stations however in useless,” the official mentioned.
”One of many police personnel discovered a pendant across the kid’s neck. He discovered a QR (fast response) code inside, which when scanned revealed a telephone quantity. It belonged to an NGO that works for mentally unwell kids,” he mentioned.
A functionary of the NGO instructed police the kid was a resident of Worli and his mother and father have been on the lookout for him since morning, the official added.
”The kid was reunited along with his father on the police station a while later. It was nice reduction to us that we might get the kid safely again along with his mother and father,” the official mentioned.
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