New Delhi – It was a tweet trending on Twitter that literally came to their rescue.
Railway Police, alerted by the Twitter trend, rescued three children who were ‘abandoned’ at New Delhi railway station on Tuesday evening and united them with their mother residing in Nabi Karim area.
It was a tweet trending on Twitter that literally came to their rescue. Railway Police, alerted by the Twitter trend, rescued three children who were ‘abandoned’ at New Delhi railway station on Tuesday evening and united them with their mother residing in Nabi Karim area.
Abhishek, a reporter with the Press Trust of India, had tweeted —“Can someone help these helpless kids at New Delhi railway station near platform 16 entrance” — with a photograph of the three on platform 16 from his twitter handle @abhishek1122.
It was retweeted 234 times and one of the tweets tagged DCP (North) Madhur Verma. Verma in turn called the SHO of the area and informed him.
“Police began searching for the children. They could not be found on platform 16,” Verma said. “I then called Abhishek and spoke to him. He had gone to the station to drop off relatives and spotted the children. He said they quietly slipped away from the platform when people started gathering around them. Local police, an hour later, informed me that the children had been found on platform 1. They were hungry, tired and distraught.”
Police said the children — Rumana (7), Raja (5) and Sanya (4) — were huddled together on the platform, weeping.
“We found them standing outside the air-conditioned hall on the Ajmeri Gate side of the railway station. The eldest of the three, Rumana, told us that their house was somewhere near Nabi Karim police station. Policemen took the children to that area and walked around until they identified their house. They were reunited with their mother,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Railways) Sanjay Bhatia said.