Lost and found: Couple reunited with 7-year-old amid chaos

FOR THE last four months, Chander Dev Mehto, a 42-year-old auto driver who hails from Bihar, used to make his children – an 11-year-old daughter and a seven-year-old son – memorise his mobile number in case of any emergency. This practice came in handy for the family of four, who had come to see the 68th Republic Day ceremony, when the youngest of the family got lost in the crowd – only to be reunited later. At 4 am, Mehto woke his family up and started getting ready to head out from east Delhi’s Ganesh Nagar area to watch the Republic Day parade. After reaching the area around 8 am, the family walked for almost half an hour to reach gate number 33.