Bengaluru Cab Driver Spots Lost 6-YO Boy, Teams Up With Cops To Take Him Home

Earlier this year, an auto driver from Mumbai bought train tickets for 2 schoolgirls who had run away from their homes and ensured that they reach back safely. The kindness of another good samaritan, cab driver Prashanth H, has now come to light in Bengaluru. According to Bangalore Mirror, on August 14 at 10.30 am, he spotted a 6-year-old boy who seemed lost.

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He was quoted saying,

“There were a couple of cabs parked near Seegehalli Army apartment and this boy approached each of them, asked them something and moved on. Something made me approach him and when I did I saw that he was wearing a gold necklace and earrings but he was barefoot. He seemed unsettled and worried. When I asked him his name and about his parents, he told me his name was Manish (name changed). He said that his parents had died in an accident and that his grandmother lives near Whitefield. He did not know the exact address and he was asking the cab drivers to tell him how to reach Whitefield. I knew that if I didn’t help him he would be in danger and his jewellery would be stolen.”

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Subsequently, the driver offered the boy a ride and took him to the Whitefield traffic police station in Kadugodi where Police constable Krishnappa spoke to the boy and asked him his grandmother’s address. With the information that it was near a temple on a road with potholes, they deduced the area to be Navanahalli in Whitefield. Unfortunately, the elderly woman wasn’t home and couldn’t be reached on the number provided by her neighbours.
Thereafter, cops asked him to draw his school. He wrote down the name of a school that had many branches so a principal was contacted and the address of his parents was found. An officer was quoted adding,
“The family lives in Avalahalli which is over 10 kilometers from our station and the boy had walked barefoot to Seegehalli, with at least 20 grams of gold on him. Anything could have happened to him if he had fallen into the wrong hands. To his good fortune, he was found by a retired ASI’s son who brought him to the station. We advised the family not to get their children to wear so many gold ornaments as this could cause harm to the child.”
The boy’s father revealed the reason he’d run away by saying, “He had not seen his grandmother for a long time and was very attached to her. He knew the route to her house and since we were not letting him go out due to the pandemic, he decided to visit her on his own.”
Kudos to the cab driver for his timely intervention and ensuring nothing untoward happened to the kid.
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