Mangaluru: Tattoo in the hands of a mentally disabled teenager helped to unite it with his family living in Kalyan in the Thane district in Maharashtra.
Shankar Prajapati, 19, roaming and around Kinnigoli and Mulky, in the second week of January.
After complaints from the locals, Mulky police shifted him to the Maimoona Foundation Apathbandhava Psycho Rehabilitation Center in Karnad.
Social workers and founders of the rehabilitation center, Mohammed Asif, noticed the cellphone number inked in his left hand.
Asif managed to find a member of the Shankar family, through a tattooed cellphone number in his hand.
ASIF tells Toi: “The parents have examined the cellphone number in Shankar’s hand, after he left the house several times before.
Mulky police ASI Krishnappa and their team saved the boy on January 13.
They handed it to our rehabilitation center for better care.
We gave him food and accommodation in our center for days.
At first, he said his name was Shankar.
Then, he said he was Raju.
Likewise, he wasn’t sure about his place of origin.
He claimed that Rajasthan and Mumbai was the place of origin.
Tattoo cellphone number In his left hand it was considered when we gave him a shower on the same day.
When I turned the number, his father MangiLal Prajapati, a construction worker from Ullasnagar in Kalyan, received the call.
He explained that his son had left the house by train, without telling who Even, because of his mental illness.
With the help of a friend, I sent Shankar back To his place of origin on the bus, a week ago, “said Asif.
“Our original village was in Rajasthan, but we were resolved in Kalyan now.
He arrived here safely a week ago.
He was with us, and we took care of him, to make sure he didn’t leave us anymore,” said Mangilal Prajapani.