Dehlon police reunite minor child with parents after five weeks

The Dehlon police claimed to have solved a case of alleged illegal confinement of a minor child of a migrant family. The case was registered against unidentified persons over five weeks ago.

The nine-year-old boy was handed over to his parents by a police team at the Dehlon police station on Wednesday.

Sukhpal Singh said the police had registered an FIR under Section 127(6) of the BNS against unidentified persons on November 22.

The complainant, Yogesh, a labourer working at a brick-kiln in the Dehlon block, had alleged that some miscreants had kept his minor son in illegal confinement at some unknown place.

The child had gone missing after his parents gave him Rs 150 and asked him to bring some things from market.

Preliminary investigations conducted under the supervision of SHO Kamaljit Singh revealed that the child had reached the Dehlon chowk on a bicycle on the day of the incident and later reached Sahnewal to catch a train to his native village in UP. He reportedly remained stranded at the Khanna railway station for many days after which he somehow reached his grandparents’ place at Dadawali village in Muzaffarpur, UP.

A team of police officials, led by Sukhpal Singh, brought the child to Dehlon on Tuesday night. He was handed over to his father Yogesh after completing formalities on Wednesday.

Expressing gratitude to the police for the investigation on the basis of video footage of various places, Yogesh said no further action in the matter was required.