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Patna: A family in Bihar's Aurangabad town has claimed that a nine year-old-boy of Indian origin found in London by the police was Sintu who was kidnapped nearly three years ago in the city.
"The boy found in London is our Sintu, who was kidnapped three years ago," said Ganga Prasad, the boy's father.
Prasad is hopeful after he saw a few photographs of the boy on a television news channel that beamed a report about a boy of Indian origin found in London by the police last week.
The television footage has brought a ray of hope to the family, nearly three years after the boy was kidnapped from Aurangabad town.
"Our hopes rekindled after we saw photographs of the boy. He is definitely our Sintu," Basant Prasad, the boy's grandfather said. Everybody in the family is now hoping that Sintu will return home.
According to family members, Sintu was abducted from Kikri within Sadar police station limits on March 3, 2005 when he was playing outside his house. "Sintu was then six years old," Ganga Prasad said.
Police filed an abduction case on March 6, 2005 but they have not made much progress.
Sintu's uncle Gaya Prasad said it all started after Sintu's maternal uncle Upendra Singh, who runs a business in Orissa, told the family Sunday night that they saw Sintu's photographs on a television news channel. "There is no doubt that he is our boy," Gaya Prasad said.
He said that though the boy found in London by the police was wearing a Sikh-style turban, the family was sure that it was Sintu. "His nose, eyes and face are similar to that of Sintu at the time when he was kidnapped," he said.
Mother Bindia Devi is the happiest because she is sure that her lost son will return. "It is a miracle for us and a ray of hope," she said.
The family said they had lost faith in the police.
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