(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
In a joint operation, authorities in Karnataka and Maharashtra
managed to reunite a speech impaired boy with his mother after six
years with the help of fingerprints on an Aadhaar card, Trend reports citing
The Tribune .
The boy, B. Bharath Kumar, had gone missing in 2016 from a
market when his mother, Parvathamma, was selling vegetables.
Parvathamma had lodged a complaint of kidnapping with the
Yelahanka police station. However, the police were unable to find
any clues of the alleged abduction.
Bharath landed in Nagpur in Maharashtra after 10 months, from
the day after he went missing. The police on duty at the Nagpur
railway station observed him wandering frantically in the premises
and inquired about him.
After confirming that the boy was alone, the officers took him
to a rehabilitation centre, Officers at the centre got him to
enroll for an Aadhaar card in January, for which he had provided
his finger prints.
The request was however rejected as there was already an
existing Aadhaar card in Bengaluru in Bharath's name.
The officers then contacted a regional Aadhaar office of Mumbai
and got a confirmation that the Bharath's fingerprints matched with
the card in Bengaluru.
The centre's officer got it contact with the Karnataka police to
track the boy's mother.
After the police located Parvathamma, she was sent to Nagpur
where she reunited with her son.
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