A message circulated on the Android application WhatsApp sent a distraught Bandra-based couple into a tizzy, when it told them that the Nashik police had found their six-and-a-half-year-old daughter, who had gone missing over three years ago. In no time, the couple rushed to the Nashik Police Commissioner’s office, only to find that the message was a hoax.

Kamar Alam Khan showing his daughter Muskan’s photograph who went missing from her uncle’s Nallasopara residence in 2010, while the family was celebrating Eid