Found: 15-yr-old who fled B’luru to start ‘new life’

Tired of his parents pressuring him to study and not allowing him to play, a 15-year-old boy from Bengaluru allegedly fled to Delhi “to start a new life”, police said on Friday, adding that he was found by government officials living in Lodhi Colony who alerted Delhi Police, who then traced his family.

- Hemani Bhandari

A senior police officer said that on Wednesday evening, they received a call from a resident of Pragati Vihar in Lodhi Colony who reported that a boy, who appeared to be guardianless, had come to the house claiming he was from Chennai.

When police reached the house and met the boy, he repeated that he was from Chennai and said both his parents were dead. “He got off a train at Nizamuddin railway station and reached Lodhi Colony, where he met a few children playing in a park. He started playing with them, and they later took him home — to the shock of their parents, who immediately alerted police,” the officer said.