Bored with school, two Andheri schoolboys decided to skip school and go on a joyride around the city. Thankfully for them, they met an alert railway commuter who took them to the Dadar railway police. The police in turn reunited the boys with their parents.
“Nine-year-old Swapnil Deepak Kahar, in Std VII and Sanket Baban Wandre, 13, in Std IX, are neighbours at Rudramukhi Housing Society, Sangarsh Nagar, Andheri (East). Both are students of Narendra Hindi Medium High School, which is a 10-minute walk from home.
On March 9, the two decided to play truant as they ‘did not feel like going to school’, said senior police inspector Shivaji Shinde. “At 9.15 am, they told their parents that they were going to school, but hopped on to a BEST bus instead and came to Andheri station.
There they caught a Churchgate-bound train, without tickets. From Churchgate, they again boarded a Borivli-bound train and alighted at Dadar station. Unsure what to do next, the two frightened boys began walking up and down the station.
An alert commuter spotted them on the Dadar railway foot over bridge around noon. Presuming they were lost, he brought them to railway police station” Shinde said.
He added, “They were scared to tell us their residential address and started crying. We then offered them tea and biscuits to gain their confidence. Later, we checked their schoolbags. In Sanket’s, we found the cell phone number of his father Baban Wandre, and contacted him.”
Wandre, who works as a technician at the Naigaon telephone exchange said, “We thought Sanket and Swapnil had gone to school, till the police called us. We are grateful to the police for taking care of the boys.
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