The 16- year- old autistic boyu2019s father believes his son is travelling between Ahmedabad and Jamnagar via Devagiri Express as multiple reports emerged from these places
gaurav. sarkar@ mid- day. com SEARCH for missing autistic teenager Tarun Gupta has taken an optimistic turn over the past u0004 u0003 days. According to the u0004 u0081 - year- oldu2019s father, Vinod Kumar Gupta, nearly u00ad u0003 people have called him or his relatives over the past few days, to report sightings of his lost son.
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u201c We will find him any day now,u201d said a hopeful Gupta.
There is a pattern. He is moving by train, and sleeping on platforms, then asking people for food, and then again boards a trainu2014 all of this between . amnagar, Baroda and Ahmedabad.
Despite multiple u201c high priority alertsu201d issued by the RPF, as well as the deployment of a search team by Mumbai Police to search for him, Tarun is yet to be found and brought back home.
Over the past month, Gupta, along with a few friends and relatives, have been putting up posters and stickers on almost each and every train that comes in and out of Mumbai.
Mumbai Police have been unsuccessful in its search for Tarun; ( right) His parents Asha and Vinod. Over the past few months, Gupta and his friends have been putting up posters on trains coming in and out of Mumbai mid- day has been following the case for the last few months 120 No of days Tarun has been missing There is a pattern. He is moving by train, and sleeping on platforms, then asking people for food, and then again boards a trainu2014 all of this between Jamnagar, Baroda and Ahmedabad. In the last 10 days, at least 20 people have told me that they had seen hi Vinod Kumar Gupta