It was a mixed bag of emotions for a family from Jaipur, who had come to Thane to celebrate Raksha Bandhan - first, terror at losing their four-year-old son, and hours later, the joy of finding him, on Saturday.

The boy, identified as Kuldip Singh, was found by Rajesh Soni, a Thane railway station officer. Soni said, "I was walking around the railway station for checks on Saturday, when around 8.30 pm, I found a boy crying on platform number 5. I asked people whether they had seen his parents, but no one had. I took him along and searched every platform for his parents. Our personnel also made announcements about him. When for almost an hour no one responded, we told the GRP and circulated his pictures on WhatsApp.