Vadodara: When a 19-year-old Dwarkesh Thakkar approached an upscale hotel in Shimla for a petty job, the cautious eyes of the hotel manager did not take him as a poor teenager asking for job who called up Padra Police station to confirm his identity.
Turns out the poor teenager is none other than the missing son of millionaire who had left for college a month ago but never returned back home, TOI reports.
The
teenager is the son of millionaire oil trader in Padra who was not found of
studies, but as a son of businessman, he surely wanted to prove his potential for
which he escaped his home and survived washing utensils and cleaning leftovers
for nearly a month.
If it wasn’t for two cops of Vadodara rural
police who happened to be holidaying in the hill station and the hotel manager,
the hope of finding Thakkar was almost lost.
According to sources, Thakkar who is a student of an engineering college of Vasad, had left home on October 14 saying he was going to college but he never returned after that.
On the day he went missing, Thakkar headed to the Vadodara railway station and boarded a train to Delhi.
The cops too failed to trace him across the state and in Mumbai despite all efforts.
“The boy had left his mobile phone at home. All we had to hunt for him were CCTV camera footage of Vadodara railway station and an auto-rickshaw driver’s statement who had dropped him at Akshar Chowk in Vadodara city,” said a police official.
Had it not been for the alert hotel manager on Monday where the teen appeared asking for a job, the police would have already given up on finding him.
As a general rule of background check, the manager immediately asked for his ID card and later called up Padra police station for confirmation.
“The
boy’s identity card showed that he had come from Padra. The alert manager
googled for the contact number of our police station and called us up to
inquire about his background,” said inspector S A Karmur of Padra police
station.
When the manager sent thakkar’s photo, the cops recognized
him and Inspector Karmur called up the constable Sanjaysinh Gohil who was vacation
with his family in Himachal Pradesh and another constable of Vadura Taluka PS Bhupendrasinh
Mahida, who was too on vacation in the hill station.
“The hotel manager told us that the boy confided that he had been working at highway eateries and kiosks and survived on whatever food he got. So we contacted all such small eateries and local taxi drivers and shared the boy’s photos along with our numbers,” said Gohil who immediately went to the Hotel along with Constable Mahida.
It was a taxi driver’s call on Monday midnight who informed the constables of tracing the teenager sleeping on the roadside in Shimla town.
The cops rushed to the spot and gave their
identities to the youth along with informing his parents who flew down to the
hill station to take him back home.
“Thakkar told us that he did neither like the college nor studies and therefore wanted to escape from his home,” Gohil said.
“It is a big relief for us as our son has been found. It was a very difficult time for the entire family,” said Thakkar’s uncle Ketan Thakkar.