The kid was reunited together 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 together with his dad and mom, 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 in a position to inform something cohesively to individuals who approached him after realising he could also be misplaced and in misery. One in all them introduced him to a policeman. An alert a couple of lacking individual 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 cellphone quantity. It belonged to an NGO that works for mentally unwell youngsters,” he mentioned.
A functionary of the NGO advised police the kid was a resident of Worli and his dad and mom have been on the lookout for him since morning, the official added.
“The kid was reunited together with his father on the police station a while later. It was nice aid to us that we might get the kid safely again together with his dad and mom,” the official mentioned.
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