Ludhiana: Compassion of a 45-year-old tea stall owner helped a five-year-old girl, who went missing from her house in Jeevan Nagar, reunite with her family.
Girl’s father Ram Kishan, who hails from Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, had moved to Ludhiana’s Jeevan Nagar on Wednesday with his wife, son and two daughters for a job.
On Thursday morning, his children were playing outside the rented accommodation when suddenly his five-year-old daughter Radha went missing.“She was playing right outside the house and when she did not return home, we started looking for her in the locality.
I got scared, thinking my daughter has been kidnapped.
It was her second day in Ludhiana and she had no idea about the locality.
When we failed to find her, I lodged a missing complaint with the police post at Industrial Area-A,” said the father.
Radha’s family spent a sleepless night as they had come to the city with a hope to have a better future and the very next day, their daughter went missing.
“All night, we prayed for her safe return,” Ram Kishan said.
Meanwhile, Radha lost way and reached near Dhandari Bridge, a few kilometres away from Jeevan Nagar.
Seeing a small girl roaming around alone, tea stall owner Nisha, 45, asked her about her address.
Scared and lost, the girl could not share the information.“The child kept crying.
I took her home as it was risky to leave a small girl alone on the road.
But before that I searched for her parents in a nearby locality, but to no avail.
At home, I tried to calm her and asked about her parents, but she didn’t tell me anything.
Then on Friday morning, I took her to Dhandari police post, where the cops already had information about her,” said Nisha.
ASI Dharampal Chaudhary, in charge of Industrial Area-A police post, said, “The Dhandari chowki informed us about the girl, following which we took her to our police post and called her family and handed over their child to them.”