Nagpur: Two brothers from Mumbai, aged seven and five years, were rescued from Badnera station by the Government Railway Police (GRP) staffers on Tuesday.
The brothers, who were travelling from Mumbai to Igatpuri along with their mother, had dozed off in the train after boarding it. The brothers landed up at Badnera station after getting separated from their mother. It’s still not clear how their mother got down from the train without the children. The children belong to a poor family residing at Kandivli in Mumbai suburbs.
Sub-inspector Prakash Shelke of GRP Badnera and his staffers attended to the children after learning about them loitering on the station unattended. They immediately alerted NGO Childline to attend to the children and counsel them. Women staffers of GRP post also rushed to help the distressed children. The famished children were provided food and milk after which they were also medically examined.
The GRP staffers also informed SP M Rajkumar in Nagpur, who instructed them to approach Child Welfare Committee for further directions regarding the children and also try to establish contact with their parents.
GRP Badnera post incharge API Ajitsingh Rajput said the elder of the two brothers was able to recall the father’s mobile number. “The father of the two boys is reaching here now. As he said that it will take him two days to reach here, we produced the children before the Child Welfare Committee, which issued an order to keep the brothers at a shelter home at Amravati,” said Rajput.