WHATSAPP HELPS BOY’S REUNION WITH KIN

BETUL/BHOPAL: Eight months after he allegedly fled from home, a nine-year-old boy was reunited with his family courtesy prompt action by two locals who found him in a village in Betul and informed the police and a photograph that the local police then sent through WhatsApp to their counterparts 600 kms away in Rewa.

The boy, Ajit Kushwaha, a resident of Umri village in Rewa, had gone missing on April 1 this year. He was living in Koylari village with a farmer’s family in Betul, when the Shahpur police got information about him. They sent his photographs to the police station concerned in Rewa where his identity was confirmed following which he was reunited with his family.

According to the town inspector, Shahpur, Rajendra Dhurve, the boy had fled from his house with a 10-year-old boy Sunil Vishwakarma, also a resident of the same village.

They reached Itarsi near Bhopal in a train and lived there for about three months and earning a living by picking rags.

They had a dispute over some issue after which Sunil returned to his native place while Ajit moved on to Betul with another boy.