Published 14:07 IST, May 26th 2020
‘Heart-touching’: Social media helps 12-year-old boy reunite with his parents
IPS officer Arun Bothra took to Twitter to share ‘a short story’ of a 12-year-old boy who was finally reunited with his parents after being stranded in a park.
- Entertainment News
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IPS officer Arun Bothra recently took to Twitter to share ‘a short story’ of a 12-year-old boy who was finally reunited with his parents after being stranded in a park in Dwarka. While writing about the power of social media and the ‘magic of Twitter’, Bothra said that the boy lived in Delhi with his parents who went back to their hometown in Bihar. However, the parents had left the 12-year-old behind with relatives with a promise to be back soon.
Bothra, in the tweet also said that the relatives allegedly also threw the boy out after which he moved into a park in Dwarka. The 12-year-old had been living in the park for quite sometime and even befriended a stray dog that kept him company.
In a series of tweets, Bothra even shared that a Twitter user had shared the boy’s story and even tagged ‘India Cares’ the IPS Officer further mentioned that there were trains between Patna and Delhi which could help reunite the boy with his parents. Bothra, who is an officer in Patna then helped the 12-year-old’s parents to reach Patna and later India Cares arranged tickets for them to travel to Delhi.
‘Magic’ of social media
In another tweet, while sharing an image of the parents and the boy reuniting in the park, Bothra informed that on May 23, the parents arrived where the kid had been living and they were happily reunited. He wrote about the power of social media and said tagging someone on Twitter is 'easy and free' and might help sometimes.
Bothra’s tweets have now gone viral and several users praised Bothra for sharing the ‘positive story’. One internet user said, "What a great news Sir...I wish this child forget this traumatic incident and his heart should not fill with hate for his own relatives although they deserve it. May he always cherished the memory of good people who have helped him & prooved ‘Khoon se badkar rishta insaniyat ka hota h’”. Another user added, “o nice to hear positive stories like these”.
Updated 14:07 IST, May 26th 2020