He wanted to meet his favourite cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. So Amit came all the way to Mumbai from a village in West Bengal. But the city was too big for the child and he felt lost and afraid. He roamed around, hungry and afraid. That's when he came across a kind looking man. He walked up
to the man and asked him Sachin's address. The man was actually a policeman in civil clothes. He asked the child about his parents and quickly concluded that the child was a runaway. He acted cautiously and won the child's trust with his kindness. He then took the child with him to a CHILDLINE office and asked us for help to repatriate him. Amit didn't want to go back home and in keeping with our Credo we let him stay in Mumbai, experiencing life in a shelter and on the street, while keeping tabs on him. When he found he didn't quite like the life, he decided to go home.

We sent a telegram to his parents about their son's whereabouts as soon as the case came to our notice. We sent them another telegram telling them when he was expected. An NGO in Kolkatta was also contacted for follow-up. Amit's family called to thank us when he reached home safe. Amit could have been lost and mistreated in an alien city. But thanks to the alert policeman, he was reunited with his family.