A day after a two-year-old boy went missing from outside his home in Govandi, the Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 6 successfully reunited him with his family. The police team left no stone unturned in their search, forming different teams to search for the boy across different areas, including local mosques and children’s shelters, as well as combing through CCTV footage. Thanks to their efforts, the boy was found safe at spot more than 2km away from his home, after he wandered away from his niehgbourhood.

The boy’s father Tabrez Ansari, 27—who is an AC repair technician residing in Baiganwadi, Govandi—said the toddler went missing on the afternoon of August 8. “My son was playing outside our home when he went missing. We searched for him, but with no sight of the boy till nightfall, we approached the police,” said the father in his statement to the police.