Social media platforms, especially Facebook, are full of share-worthy real-life incidents. Madhup Mohta shared one such story on March 31 on his Facebook profile and it has gone viral, with over 1,700 shares and 5,500 likes.

The post started saying he heard a story on the day of Holi this year from his maid, and such a story, he never expected to hear! His maid told him her 13-year-old daughter studying in a boarding school in tribal Jharkhand and that her name has been featured in the latest list of children to be recruited by the Maoists through a lottery. He says "motorcycle borne Maoists were carrying out a recce for her abduction". There was no two ways about the matter other than rescuing the girl, and brought to Delhi, even if it involved Commando style operation, he writes.



Question was how!

Mohta says his first instinct was to get in touch with an IAS batchmate in Ranchi, but couldn't get through since he was busy attending to the Speaker of the Assembly. Mohta was then reminded of the Railway Protection Force and what the course director of an induction course at Railway Staff college in Baroda said about the RPF - "The Railway Protection Force is the only true all India force in the country as it has an effective presence and jurisdiction in every inch of the Indian territory" - and decided to contact the RPF.

A quick call to RPF IG Jaiaya Varmah explaining the situation helped Mohta get in touch with Sanjeev Kumar, the RPF Commander in Ranchi. Sanjeev's prompt action established contact with the child who was in a remote area by the name of Kolebira. Mohta says she was 'smuggled' on motorcycles through the Maoist infested territory, and after spending a night at a policeman's house in Ranchi, girl was brought to Delhi by train. A senior railway official, Suri Singh, helped securing a berth on a Garib Rath train for the child through ADRM Ranchi Vijay Kumar, and she was looked after by an IRCTC attendant Ravi Kumar.

Mohta writes, "RPF Inspectors ensured the security and well being of the unaccompanied and terrorised Child along the 1341 Km journey from Ranchi to Delhi with personal supervision at each major station on the way, Daltonganj, Dehri on Sone, Mughal Sarai, Allahabad, Kanpur and New Delhi."

The child is now with her mother, safe and sound, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh and she has been admitted to a school. Mohta hopes she'd grow up to be a doctor or an RPF officer.

What a brilliant effort by Madhup Mohta and the RPF! And never to forget the involvement and help from all those officials who helped facilitate such an operation!