For the third time ever since the national lockdown was relaxed last month, Vinod Kumar Gupta, father of missing autistic 16-year-old Tarun Gupta has set out with a handful of friends and relatives to search for his son. Tarun went missing from near their home in Colaba on October 1, 2019, after he got mixed up with an election rally that was passing by. However, this time, Vinod is searching closer to home i.e. at the villages near Panvel.

Last month, Vinod travelled till Jhansi by road — a round trip of a total of 3,000 Km while searching for Tarun. He and his friends came back to Mumbai without any concrete leads, rested for two days, and once again left (by road) for Nadiad, near Ahmedabad, after they received a call from someone who said that they had spotted 'someone like Tarun.' However, this too did not yield anything fruitful.