Mumbai, July 26: It was a happy moment for the Dhangar family from Kalyan, as their 15-year-old son, who went missing for three-years, returned home on Tuesday, all thanks to the Aadhaar.  As per a news report in the Free Press Journal, the Thane rural superintendent of police (SP) Mahesh Patil had instructed his team to expedite the search operation of missing cases. After that, the team started scanning the pictures of missing people and tried contacting the children homes across the state. During which, the team got to know that a differently-abled boy has been lodged at a welfare home run by Navoday Rescue Foundation in Pathardi village of Ahmednagar district.

Furthermore, when the team of officials reached the welfare home, they took the boy's thumb impression; it emerged, that he is already registered under the Aadhaar, through which the police got his address. They then reached out to his family, who identified the missing boy. API Sanjay Bangar the officer who handled this case confirmed that the boy had been reunited with his family based on the Aadhaar details.

According to the report, the boy's parents are daily-wages labourers, and in the year 2015, they lodged a missing complaint of their child. The shelter home officials were unable to help the boy, since he is a special child who  cannot speak much apart from uttering his own name.

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