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Chennai: Lost Mumbai boy Mohammed Fazlu just might
celebrate Eid with his family. The nine-year-old has been staying
at a shelter in Tamil Nadu after making an accidental train
journey, but a couple claiming to be his parents turned up
Thursday to take him home.
He was separated from his parents in April apparently after he
boarded a train in Mumbai to look for his ball, following which
the train chugged off to Vellore. He has been lodged at the
Government Reception Unit in Vellore.
"A couple claiming to be Fazlu's parents - Ghouse Basha and mother
Dilshad - have come here. We are in discussion with them now. On
ascertaining facts, the child welfare committee will meet in the
afternoon and decide on handing over the boy," K. Ganesan, who is
in-charge of the shelter home, told IANS over phone.
According to C. Ramesh, president of Udavum Ullangal in
Tirupatthur near Vellore, Fazlu was handed over to them by the
Railway Police April 27, 2010.
"The Railway Police found him travelling alone in the Mumbai-Kanyakumari
Express. We had kept him at the home till April 30. On enquiry he
gave the names of his parents, sisters as well as that of his
neighbours," Ramesh said.
Apart from Hindi, Fazlu also spoke Kannada and at times gave
confusing answers, Ramesh said.
Not able to get any concrete information about the boy's parents,
Udavum Ullangal handed over Fazlu to a shelter for boys run by the
state government in Vellore.
According to Fazlu, the ball he was playing with landed inside the
Mumbai-Kanyakumari Express. The train started moving when he went
inside. Fazlu finally hid under a seat and was sleeping when the
Railway Police found him at Jollarpettai near Vellore.
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