THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Angered over his father's refusal to buy him a laptop,
a 12-year-old boy from Kondotty in Kozhikode district in north Kerala broke
open the family safe and left home with Rs. 1 lakh to buy a laptop.
The boy, a Class VII student, purchased the
laptop for Rs. 30,000 from a shop at Kondotty and hid it in his school
bag as he embarked on a journey with the remaining Rs. 70,000
on May 30, police said.
Not
happy with the stance of his father, a PWD engineer, that he was too young to
operate a laptop, the boy decided to break open the almirah at home and left
with Rs. 1 lakh cash after
telling his mother that he was going for a football match.
Hoping to visit Kochi, the boy got into a Kerala
State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus from Kozhikode.
However, he overslept and reached
Thiruvananthapuram early morning the next day.
Police said the boy on May 31 took a KSRTC bus
to Kochi from here. When the bus had hardly reached Kollam, he called the lady
conductor asking if the bus had reached Kochi.
Sensing something amiss, the lady conductor
started talking to the boy and asked him from where he hailed. The boy replied
that he was from Kochi.
When she asked if his mother would be waiting
for him at the stop to pick him up, tears welled up and he broke down.
On learning that he had run away from home, the
boy was taken to the nearest police station at Karungapally in the neighbouring
Kollam district, from where his parents were contacted and the boy was handed
over to them, police said.
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