A 16-year-old boy, who went lacking from an NGO-run youngsters’s dwelling in August 2022, has been traced by the Delhi Police Crime Department. The boy, now 18 years outdated, was discovered at a home in Dakshinpuri, police mentioned.
The boy went lacking on August 19, 2022. The disappearance was first reported when an worker of the NGO filed a grievance with the Barakhamba Highway police station alleging that two 16-year-old boys had gone lacking from the house.
Regardless of intensive searches, no clues have been discovered. The Delhi Police had introduced a Rs 20,000 reward for any info resulting in the boy’s whereabouts. The case would finally flip chilly earlier than the Crime Department determined to take a crack at it.
Further CP (Crime Department), Sanjay Sain mentioned, “… The group was conscious that the kid is now an grownup and may very well be anyplace within the metropolis. The group looked for him at railway stations, bus stands, development websites, eating places, and different locations.”
The breakthrough got here when Constable Dharam Singh acquired a tip off on Wednesday {that a} younger man matching the boy’s description has been seen working in a resort. The group reached the spot and traced him to a home in Dakshinpuri.
Throughout questioning, the boy revealed that he was discovered homeless in Kolkata and positioned in a youngsters’s dwelling. He was then shifted to the Delhi dwelling in 2018.
Based on the police, the boy mentioned {that a} household had claimed he was their lacking little one, however a organic take a look at dominated out the match. In 2022, he and one other boy left the house and separated. Afraid he is likely to be punished for breaking the foundations, he went into hiding, the police added.
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