Shriyansh Lad, a 12-year-old special child who resides at Nalasopara, has been reunited with his family after he went missing since boarding a train for a joyride on Thursday afternoon. An alert Prabhadevi resident, Nitin Dholakiya, spotted the boy outside Churchgate railway station and took him to the NM Joshi Marg police station. But the officials told him to shelter the child for a few days until the family was found, which the Dholakiyas happily did for three days.

Shriyansh, a resident of Maurya Nagar, has been experiencing convulsions since he was two years old. His father Nilesh Lad, an autorickshaw driver, told mid-day, “Shriyansh had a normal birth but on turning two, he started having convulsions, which caused his mind to weaken. He is undergoing treatment for the condition and we haven’t admitted him to school due to this. On Thursday morning, Shriyansh told me he wanted to take the train for a joyride and I replied that I would take him on the weekend.”