Two Nepali children who were stranded at the Gorakhpur railway station in India have been rescued and handed over to their families. Isha Bohara, 13, of Thapadanda, Pyuthan Municipality-4, and her brother, 7, Sudip Bohara, who had been staying at a tea stall in front of the Gorakhpur railway station for the past two weeks, were brought to Nepal on Thursday and handed over to their families. 

Anil Kumar Gupta, president of the Gorakhpur-based India-Nepal Friendship Society, Prem Maya, a hockey coach at Bir Bahadur Singh Sports College in Gorakhpur and India's national women's hockey player, and Krishna Pandey alias Munni, the owner of the tea stall 'Pandey Tea Stall' in front of the railway station, where the children were staying, helped them to return to their homes. 

An expatriate Nepali woman, Prem Maya, had informed Gupta, the president of the India-Nepal Friendship Society, after seeing the children, while Krishna Pandey of 'Pandey Tea Stall' had brought the hungry Bohra sisters stranded at the railway station to her shop and protected them from danger. 

With the information and support of Gupta, the president of the Friendship Society, the relatives who had been searching for the sisters who had been missing for two weeks had also received the information after the news was published in Kantipur Online on Wednesday. 

‘As soon as we saw the news with their photos on Kantipur Online, we were happy and immediately took the initiative to return them home,’ said Tukman Bohara, uncle of Bohara Didibhai, who lives in Shivpur, Shivraj Municipality-1, Kapilvastu. ‘With the help of Maitri Samaj President Gupta, tea shop owner Ms. and others, the niece and nephew were saved from danger and we were able to return them home.’

Tukman had reached Gorakhpur himself along with a neighbor on Wednesday afternoon to pick up the daughter. Earlier, he had contacted Kantipur and got all the details.  

He said that Isha and Sudeep were taken to their Pyuthan home on Thursday afternoon and handed over to the family. According to him, after the death of Isha and Sudeep’s father and mother’s remarriage, they had been living under the shelter of their grandparents. Tukman said that the sisters, who were in love with their grandparents, ran away from home. Isha studies in class 8 at the local Khalanga Secondary School, while Sudeep studied in class 4 at that school and then enrolled in class 1 at the local Evergreen Boarding School. 

Isha and Sudeep, who reached Gorakhpur via Krishnanagar border, were hungry and thirsty, and when they were begging for food from other passengers at the Gorakhpur railway station, the son of the tea shop owner Krishna, who was selling water bottles, saw them and brought them to the tea shop. 

Seeing that they were in danger, Krishna informed the nearby Plush station and kept them under her protection until further arrangements were made. Sudeep and Krishna's sons, who were of the same age, used to sell water bottles at the railway station. Krishna had taken Isha to a relative's house in PPiganj, 25 km away, and kept her safe, saying that no one would come to the tea shop.