Timely assistance by a policeman helped a woman reunite with her four children in the age group of six to eleven, after the minors boarded a local train at a railway station in Mumbai, although their mother could not do so due to a huge rush, police have said. The incident occurred on January 26, an official release by the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate, which has jurisdiction over parts of Thane and Palghar districts, said on Thursday.

Police sub-inspector (PSI) Ujjwal Arke was part of a group of officers from the MBVV police, who had gone on a cycling ride on the occasion of the Republic Day from Mira Road to the Gateway of India in Mumbai. On their return journey, they took a suburban train from Churchgate station to Mira Road. At Andheri station, two women boarded the local. The women were in a disturbed state and crying.