Sachin Sunil Chauhan, a student of class II, had run away from his home at a village near Vardhman town of WB's Asansol district about 10 days back, Bardoli police inspector S M Sagar told PTI over phone today.
"Sachin was scolded by his widowed mother Radha on June 29 after he lost a Rs 500 note which she had given him to buy some items from the market," Sagar said.
However, his trouble grew in Surat as he could converse only in his native language Bengali.
The scared boy then got into a state transport (ST) bus and asked the conductor to give him a ticket to Asansol.
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The bus conductor failed to understand his language and asked him to get down at the ST depot in Bardoli town, about 160 km from Vadodara.
The boy begged there as he had no money, said Sagar.
"We took help from several Bengali people staying in Surat to get details about the boy's family and his native village," the police officer said.
The Bengali people contacted their friends and family members staying in Kolkata, Vardhman town and Asansol and managed to approach his mother. Some of these people went to the village and informed her about her missing son being found in Gujarat's Bardoli town, he said.
They brought Radha to Bardoli where the minor boy was reunited with her yesterday after due verification of her identification documents, Sagar said.