When nine-year-old Ishaan Patel did not reach home at his regular time on Friday evening last week after school, his parents spent a harrowing time looking for him. They found him around 40 minutes later, sitting at a BEST bus stop far from the home route. It was after talking to the child, that they learnt that he was asked to leave school because they had not paid the fees.

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