A 15-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who eloped with her Class X classmate, was returned to her family thanks to some prompt action by the Indian Railways.
The girl’s mother tweeted to railway minister Suresh Prabhu after she allegedly ran away from home with her classmate on Saturday.
@RailMinIndia @sureshpprabhu Girl eloped with 10 th class mate by Geetanjali just passed Bushabal station help pic.twitter.com/x6wWnFtIrf
— Sangita Prasad Naray (@sangitapd) January 30, 2016
The tweet had the girl’s photograph, her phone number, the boy’s phone number and other necessary details. It also mentioned that the train the couple boarded was about to pass the Bhusawal station.
The railways jumped into action:
@RailMinIndia @sangitapd Please send your contact number or call 1800111322 for further action.
— RB IGCNI (@IR_IGCNI) January 30, 2016
@sangitapd Matter notified to the concerned officials @ir_igcni
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) January 30, 2016
Based on the information, the ministry alerted the Railway Protection Force, who tracked the teenagers to the Nashik station and took them into safe custody. The parents were then reunited with the children after they flew to Mumbai. And the railways celebrated their achievement on Twitter:
A tweet to @sureshpprabhu helped a father in distress and saved two innocent kids from falling in wrong hands pic.twitter.com/ZX5654ZAZz
— CPRO Central Railway (@Narendra_IRTS) January 30, 2016
