Vinod Kumar Gupta, father of missing autistic teenager Tarun Gupta and his two friends — Jayant Chowhan, a driver from Delhi and Bablu Khan, a taxi driver from Mumbai have left the city on Sunday evening on an indefinite state-wide search for Tarun.

The trio—armed with masks, sanitizers, gloves, immunity boosters and vitamin tablets have set their sights on searching the remote villages in Maharashtra.