Half asleep and in a hurry to open his milk shop for the morning customers, a Dombivli-based milkman forgot his six-year-old daughter on a long-distance train in the dead of night. Over the next two hours, he and his wife remained in utter panic as the RPF launched a search for her. They found her still peacefully asleep on her berth, unaware of all the drama that had passed.

Omprakash Yadav had gone to Shirdi with his wife and daughter, along with his brother-in-law's family. The group had been travelling non-stop for over 24 hours, and Omprakash was half asleep when he alighted from the train at Kalyan station at 3.27 am. "I run a milk shop, and I cannot shut my business for a long time. We reached Shirdi in the wee hours of June 12, visited the temple and caught our return train the night around 10:12 pm. We all were very tired and in need of sleep," recalled Omprakash. "We were all still asleep when the train reached Kalyan. I jolted awake and woke everyone up in a hurry. Most of us got down at the station, but the train started moving before my brother-in-law Ravishankar could alight. I told him to get down at the next station instead."