Updated On: 29 January, 2024 05:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Faisal Tandel
48-hour-long search ended after canine from Thane rural police dog squad traced him

The boy who went missing
The search for a missing 3-year-old boy conducted between Bhiwandi to Ambarnath for 48 hours came to an end with a canine from the Thane rural police dog squad tracing his body to the water tank of the building where he lived.
According to the police, Vidhansh Gopal Chavan was a resident of a municipal building behind Kotergate mosque in Bhiwandi. Vidhansh ‘s father is a sanitation worker with Bhiwandi Nizampur City Municipal Corporation. His mother Mamta who approached the Bhiwandi city police on January 26 said her son left home and didn’t return. “They searched for him for two hours and then approached the police. She claimed that the boy went out to play and get a chocolate from a shop. The boy being a minor, we registered a kidnapping case and started searching for the boy,” said a police officer.