KOLKATA: An 18-year-old speech- and hearing-impaired youth who was found roaming aimlessly outside the Kolkata airport was rescued by CISF officers and reunited with his family on Thursday evening.
Md Farhan Afsar, a resident of MN Chatterjee Sarani in Narkeldanga, had gone missing from his home on Saturday evening. His family had been looking for him since then. “We had lodged a missing diary on Saturday night and had searched everywhere in vain. We got a call from the airport on Thursday and rushed there to find our son. We are thankful to the officers for their help,” said Ehsan Ul-Haque, Farhan’s father.
An airport official said two CISF officers — inspector Sushil Kumar and SI Sujit Kumar Jha — spotted Farhan loitering outside gate 3C in the departure area. “A local cab driver told us the youth had been roaming in the area for three days. The officers checked his identity and found a badge mentioning his condition and the mobile number of his father, whom they called,” he said.