Three months ago, a teenage boy walked into a gaushala in Rampur Bushahr (also known as Rampur), a small town tucked into the hills of Shimla district. While Yogesh soon left Shegaon and reunited with his father in Akot, in Akola district, Jayesh remained with his mother. Back home in Akola, his father, Sudhakar Bodade, a daily wage labourer, filed a missing person complaint at Khadan police station. Further inquiries led them to Akola’s missing cell, and finally to the original complaint at Khadan police station, Akola Superintendent of Police Archit Chandak says. And, father and son finally met for the first time in almost eight years, at a police station in Shimla.

Source: Indian Express January 25, 2026 00:14 UTC