<p>The Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Wednesday rescued a 13-year-old Bengaluru girl from the New Delhi railway station, who had run away from home following a tiff with her parents over her excessive smartphone usage.</p>.<p>A student of Class 8 from suburban Bengaluru, the teenager boarded the Karnataka Express Special train from Bengaluru city on Monday with a confirmed ticket for New Delhi.</p>.<p>Ajay Buwa, a journalist working in Delhi for Sakal, a Marathi newspaper, who boarded the same train at Manmad on Tuesday evening and his co-passenger Bablu Singh, noticed the girl travelling alone in their compartment.</p>.<p>On inquiry, the girl, who spoke Kannada and broken English, said that she was staying in Delhi with her grandmother and studying in a local school. She also said she had gone to her hometown and got stuck due to lockdown.</p>.<p>“I became suspicious about the girl and immediately alerted TTE (Travelling Ticket Examiner). When TTE came, he found that she had a confirmed ticket till New Delhi and said her uncle will come to the railway station and receive her,” Buwa told <em>Deccan Herald</em>.</p>.<p>He also gave her a jacket and a bedsheet to protect herself from the cold weather conditions.</p>.<p>As the train approached Delhi, Buwa also alerted the Railway Protection Force (RPF) about a girl travelling alone in a train.</p>.<p>As the train reached New Delhi Railway Station, the RPF personnel escorted the girl and waited for her uncle to come and receive her.</p>.<p>As no one turned up to receive the teenager, the RPF reached out to the Delhi Kannada Sangh Secretary C M Nagraj, who rushed office staff Devaiah to the railway station to assist the girl.</p>.<p>The girl was not carrying any mobile phone, but the RPF found a phone number in a book she was carrying and reached out to her parents.</p>.<p>After speaking to the parents, the RPF learnt that the girl had left the home following a tiff over excessive use of a smartphone given to her to attend online classes.</p>.<p>The parents had filed a missing person report with the Bengaluru Rural District Police.</p>.<p>The girl claimed that she was influenced by Radha-Krishna serial on a Kannada television channel and had set out in search of Krishna, her favourite god and even planned to visit Mathura.</p>.<p>According to the RPF, the girl’s parents were reaching Delhi to take her back home.</p>
<p>The Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Wednesday rescued a 13-year-old Bengaluru girl from the New Delhi railway station, who had run away from home following a tiff with her parents over her excessive smartphone usage.</p>.<p>A student of Class 8 from suburban Bengaluru, the teenager boarded the Karnataka Express Special train from Bengaluru city on Monday with a confirmed ticket for New Delhi.</p>.<p>Ajay Buwa, a journalist working in Delhi for Sakal, a Marathi newspaper, who boarded the same train at Manmad on Tuesday evening and his co-passenger Bablu Singh, noticed the girl travelling alone in their compartment.</p>.<p>On inquiry, the girl, who spoke Kannada and broken English, said that she was staying in Delhi with her grandmother and studying in a local school. She also said she had gone to her hometown and got stuck due to lockdown.</p>.<p>“I became suspicious about the girl and immediately alerted TTE (Travelling Ticket Examiner). When TTE came, he found that she had a confirmed ticket till New Delhi and said her uncle will come to the railway station and receive her,” Buwa told <em>Deccan Herald</em>.</p>.<p>He also gave her a jacket and a bedsheet to protect herself from the cold weather conditions.</p>.<p>As the train approached Delhi, Buwa also alerted the Railway Protection Force (RPF) about a girl travelling alone in a train.</p>.<p>As the train reached New Delhi Railway Station, the RPF personnel escorted the girl and waited for her uncle to come and receive her.</p>.<p>As no one turned up to receive the teenager, the RPF reached out to the Delhi Kannada Sangh Secretary C M Nagraj, who rushed office staff Devaiah to the railway station to assist the girl.</p>.<p>The girl was not carrying any mobile phone, but the RPF found a phone number in a book she was carrying and reached out to her parents.</p>.<p>After speaking to the parents, the RPF learnt that the girl had left the home following a tiff over excessive use of a smartphone given to her to attend online classes.</p>.<p>The parents had filed a missing person report with the Bengaluru Rural District Police.</p>.<p>The girl claimed that she was influenced by Radha-Krishna serial on a Kannada television channel and had set out in search of Krishna, her favourite god and even planned to visit Mathura.</p>.<p>According to the RPF, the girl’s parents were reaching Delhi to take her back home.</p>
