Boy living under Lalbaug bridge goes missing

Vadodara: A nine-year-old grandson of a labourer went missing from under Lalbaug bridge on September 10. The next day the labourer lodged an abduction complaint with Navapura police station after the family could not find the boy.
Police said that the boy went missing when his grandparents had gone to his aunt’s home in Manjalpur. Since the boy’s father had died two years ago and his mother had remarried, the boy stayed with his grandparents.
On the afternoon of September 10, when the grandparents returned and did not find the boy they asked their other son, who was supposed to take care of the kid. But he too did not know. Instead, he said that the boy must have gone to his aunt’s home behind them.
Believing that the boy must have gone to aunt’s house, they did not search for him.
Next morning, the grandparents contacted the aunt. But the boy was not there either. After searching him, the family approached police on Friday evening.
“The boy used to roam around in the area for begging and return home in the evening. Our teams are searching for him and we have also distributed posters with a sketch of his,” said inspector S V Chaudhary of Navapura police station.