‘Tortured by dad’, 4 siblings flee city; found in Gwalior ashram after a week | Mumbai News – Times of India
Mumbai: An 18-year-old and her three underage siblings from Andheri (E) who escaped from home were found at an ashram in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, a week after they had left. The children, who are still to reach home, said they were fed up of their father’s “harassment”.
The four siblings — the boy is 11, his sisters are 18, 15 and eight — had also taken their mother along on Punjab Mail, but she got separated mid-journey and returned.
They had planned their escape, said the police. They sold their school books besides some odds and ends at the local scrap shop to meet their travel expense. The 15-year-old girl has just cleared her SSC exam with 85% marks. On May 26, the children also convinced their mother to walk out with them.
However, while on the train, the mother was not comfortable with the escape plan and tried to tell the children to abandon it. The police said tat the mother disembarked at Khandwa station, presuming that the children would chicken out and follow her.
“But they didn’t… The train left the station and the mother got separated from the children,” said an officer from MIDC police station where a kidnapping case has been registered. The mother got home on May 28 and told her husband about the children’s escape plan.
What helped the cops trace the children was a call they made by borrowing a co-traveller’s phone to call up a “friend”, identified as Riyaz from Uttar Pradesh. The police learnt they had alighted at Gwalior. Locals directed them to the ashram.
By then, Mumbai police had contacted their counterparts in Gwalior who checked CCTV footage and enquired with locals to find out where the children had headed. When the police reached the ashram, the siblings told police and ashram officials that they “would not want to go to their father”. They were produced before the Child Commission in Gwalior.
The case was supervised by deputy commissioner Mangesh Shinde and four teams led by assistant commissioner Shashikant Bhosale, senior inspector Satish Gaikwad, inspector Tukaram Koyande, assistant inspector Yash Palwe, and sub-inspector Rahul Patil.
The four siblings — the boy is 11, his sisters are 18, 15 and eight — had also taken their mother along on Punjab Mail, but she got separated mid-journey and returned.
They had planned their escape, said the police. They sold their school books besides some odds and ends at the local scrap shop to meet their travel expense. The 15-year-old girl has just cleared her SSC exam with 85% marks. On May 26, the children also convinced their mother to walk out with them.
However, while on the train, the mother was not comfortable with the escape plan and tried to tell the children to abandon it. The police said tat the mother disembarked at Khandwa station, presuming that the children would chicken out and follow her.
“But they didn’t… The train left the station and the mother got separated from the children,” said an officer from MIDC police station where a kidnapping case has been registered. The mother got home on May 28 and told her husband about the children’s escape plan.
What helped the cops trace the children was a call they made by borrowing a co-traveller’s phone to call up a “friend”, identified as Riyaz from Uttar Pradesh. The police learnt they had alighted at Gwalior. Locals directed them to the ashram.
By then, Mumbai police had contacted their counterparts in Gwalior who checked CCTV footage and enquired with locals to find out where the children had headed. When the police reached the ashram, the siblings told police and ashram officials that they “would not want to go to their father”. They were produced before the Child Commission in Gwalior.
The case was supervised by deputy commissioner Mangesh Shinde and four teams led by assistant commissioner Shashikant Bhosale, senior inspector Satish Gaikwad, inspector Tukaram Koyande, assistant inspector Yash Palwe, and sub-inspector Rahul Patil.
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