Amarjeet.Singh1@timesofindia.com 04.05.2026
Bhopal : A two-year-old boy, unclothed waist down, walked barefoot alone for nearly 20 hours through a forest full of wild animals after his father allegedly killed his mother and abandoned him in a remote patch of Madhya Pradesh. The stunning survival story ended with cops finding the weak and dehydrated toddler early Sunday in a remote patch along the Vidisha-Raisen border after arresting his father.
So hungry and thirsty was the baby that he grabbed food and water the cops offered before he was rushed to hospital and stabilised. “It was a miracle that he survived,” said Sonali Gupta, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) of Begumganj, the pocket where the rescuers found the child, nearly 2km from the spot where he had been abandoned. The horrors started unfolding Saturday noon when the child’s father, a 25-yea rold from a village in Vidisha district’s Haidergarh area, allegedly crushed his wife’s head with a stone, police said.
Their son was with them at the time. After the killing, the man took the child on his motorcycle and rode about 2km into adjoining Raisen district’s Begumganj belt. He dumped the child near a stream behind a temple in the dense forest. The area, the police said, is known for the movement of wild animals, making survival a challenge even for adults.
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