Mumbai: Exam scare lands 10-yr-old on CST platform

Mumbai: Fear of failing exams drove a 10-year-old boy to run away from his Navi Mumbai house on Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, he was spotted roaming aimlessly at the CST railway station by a railway cop the same night and reunited with his family on Monday.

The boy, a fourth standard student of an English medium school in Airoli, was studying at home since Sunday morning for his mid-term examination scheduled on Monday. At around 2pm, he told his aunt Jyoti Jagdale, 37, that he was going to his friend's house for study.
The boy left his friend's house at around 3pm, but instead of returning home, he went to the Airoli railway station and boarded a CST-bound local.

When he did not return home till 5pm, his anxious aunt and cousin, with whom he was staying, searched for him at his friend's house and the adjoining area. When he could not be traced, they lodged a missing complaint at the Rabale police station at night.
Meanwhile, police inspector Pandarinath Yeram, who was patrolling platform no 8, found a boy loitering on the platform. Suspecting something amiss, he brought the boy to the police station and gave him tea and biscuits. After taking him into confidence, Yeram asked him his name, and where he was from.

"After learning about his aunt, we immediately contacted her and informed her that her nephew is safe at the CST railway police station. The couple came to the police station on Monday morning and took their nephew," said Yeram.

The boy hails from Solapur and was staying and studying at his aunt's house for the past four years at the behest of his parents.


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