Girl reunited with parents after 5 days
Published: April 26, 2006
IT seems like a fairy tale. A little girl separated from her parents, found by locals, protected by the police, sheltered by an orphanage and finally reunited with her parents—all in five days. But for two-and-a-half-year-old Nandini, it isn’t really a happy ending of sorts. For the Bhagwatsinh Balashram, the orphanage where she stayed for three days after she got lost, is likely to be her future home. Reason? Her father Navinbhai, a labourer is unable to support her, and her mother Gauriben can’t look after her as she is mentally unstable. Little Nandini had been found crying outside a closed shop in Hathikhana area in Rajkot, and was handed over to the A-Division police here by the shopkeepers of the area on April 20. For the next three days the police station was her home and the men in khakhi her family.
‘‘She was found crying outside a close shop at Hathikhana. We were informed by the other shop owners of the area and she was brought to the police station’’, said an official with A-Division.
Dressed in a frock, she barely spoke anything. Finally, the efforts of a woman constable, who constantly tried to make her speak, paid. ‘‘After our all efforts to make her say something, all she said was that her father’s name was Navinbhai and mother’s Gauriben,’’ said the police official adding, ‘‘Except names the of her parents the little one could not give any other information’’.
While the police tried to locate her parents, she played, took meals and slept at A-Division. With the police unable to gather any more clues, they handed her over to the Bhagwatsinh Balashram in Gondal on April 22.
Meanwhile Nandini’s photograph was also released in a local newspaper, along with a missing report. That’s when Navinbhai, a daily wager from Mahika village who can’t read or write, saw the newspaper cutting and identified his missing daughter’s photo.
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