Missing Mumbai boy found in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa town

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A nine-year-old Mumbai boy, who went missing five days ago after his tuition teacher told him to complete his homework, has been traced to Khandwa town in Madhya Pradesh, a police officer said on Wednesday.

The boy, a Std IV student, left his home in Santacruz on Saturday evening to attend his tuition class but did not return home, said the Vakola police station officer. His worried family members enquired with their relatives and the tuition teacher, who told them that she had told the boy to complete his homework and bring it back, he said.

The boy left the tuition teacher's home around 8 pm, but did not reach his residence. His father, who works with a restaurant aggregator and food delivery company, searched for his son at different locations in the city, to no avail, said the officer.

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He took the help of social media influencers and circulated his son's pictures on different platforms, but did not get any clue about his whereabouts, he said. Later, the minor's family members approached the Vakola police station and lodged a kidnapping complaint.

On Wednesday, the Mumbai cops got a phone call from their counterparts in MP's Khandwa town informing them that a minor boy from the city was in their custody. He was the same boy whom the Mumbai cops had been looking for, said the officer. How the boy reached Khandwa was not yet known and a team of the Vakola police was on its way to the MP town to bring him back to Mumbai, he added.

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Age of the boy who was found in Khandwa

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