Monday morning saw the authorities - city police and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) - launch efforts to bring back autistic teen Tarun Gupta, who went missing from near his Colaba home on October 1. On Sunday, the MRA Marg police, with whom Tarun's parents had filed a missing person's plaint, finalised a team of 10 officers, headed by Senior Inspector Sanjay Kamble.

It has been learnt by mid-day learnt that cops have identified potential locations - railway stations, children's welfare shelters, orphanages, hospitals and small villages - for the hunt.