HYDERABAD: From last nearly one year, a couple have been leaving no stone unturned in searching their missing five-year-old boy. Just out of blue on Wednesday, they got a call from local Meerpet police asking them to accompany to Dundigal Childen Home to recognise a boy. The parents who have been undergoing great depression in the last one year, suddenly jumped with joy after recognising the boy as their own missing son Babi Dipak . This emotional re-union could happen on Wednesday only due to Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) software, which was launched recently by Telangana police.

It was on October 13, 2017 that Rajiv Gruhakalpa resident, Dipak, who was then five years old, went out of the house to play at around 8.30 am and became untraceable. The missing boy’s mother Naga Lakshmi lodged a complaint the very next day in Meerpet police station after which the police searched for their missing son at different places.

After Telangana police launched FRT few days ago, to trace the wanted criminals and missing persons, state intelligence sleuths from last few days have been visiting various Children Homes to compare the photographs of the missing boys and girls with the children residing in various Homes. Dipak was residing at Kutumbam Children Home, Bahadurpally, Dundigal. On Sunday the facial photograph approximately matched with his available photograph in the police database. Immediately, FRT gave a pop up alert about a missing complaint in Meerpet.

"We took the parents to the children home and both the parents and Dipak recognised each other. Later, all the various other features, moles, were matched with the details in given in the missing complaint. As of now the boy is six-years-old. On the day Dipak went missing, he refused to go to school and went out to play," Meerpet police officer A Man Mohan told TOI. However, it is still a mystery how Dipak moved from Meerpet to the other end of the city Dundigal.

