Two missing boys were reunited with their families hours after the police here circulated their pictures on social media having failed to trace them through conventional methods like searches at bus stands and railway stations.
The two boys, one 12 and another 13 years of age, lived in the same neighbourhood in the Selaqui area of the city from where they went missing on April 18, according to an official release.
Frantic search by the police and local police at bus stands, railway stations and hotels yielded no clue of their whereabouts.
Desperate parents then approached Uttarakhand Police ADG (Law and Order) Ashok Kumar to apprise him of the problem.
Kumar immediately directed that the photographs of the missing children be uploaded on social media along with necessary information, the press release said.
The effort paid off within ten hours as one Ajay Manchanda called up the Sahaspur Police Station to inform he had seen the two boys near a temple in Doiwala area.
Family members, along with police officials, rushed to the Mani Mai Mandir in Doiwala and were overjoyed to find them safe.
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