This twelve-year-old boy’s escapade could easily inspire a Bollywood movie.

Amar Sankrit, a class seven student who was staying with his cousins in Delhi, ran away from home on Tuesday, just because he didn’t want to take his Punjabi language exam. He boarded a wrong train and reached Mumbai on Wednesday evening, instead of Patna where he intended to go.

A team of Matunga cops spotted him at the Dadar railway station in the wee hours of Thursday and took him in custody. There he concocted a kidnap story. Some food and a lot of coaxing later, he admitted to have run away from home.

The bespectacled Sankrit was almost smug while narrating his experiences to a cop at the Matunga police station who was recording his statement. “I hate Punjabi subject! I didn’t want to take the exam, so I ran away. I wanted to go to ‘Ma’ (his aunt Kamla Singh) who stays in Patna. She never yells at me and I was missing her,” he said.

Singh’s husband Jitendra, whom Sankrit calls ‘papa’, works as an operational manager with an educational institution in Belgaum. Sankrit’s father died earlier and his mother (whom he calls mummy) stays in Varanasi with his siblings.

“This is the second time I am doing this. The first time was in June when I was staying with mummy in Varanasi. I had planned to run away to ‘Ma’ in Patna as mummy kept scolding me but was caught before I could flee. After that, mummy sent me to Delhi to stay with my brothers and cousins so that I could ‘study well’. I was admitted to Guru Nanak High School, where I had to learn Punjabi. I hate the subject, so once again I made a plan to run away to ‘Ma’. But instead of taking a train to Patna, I took one that was coming from Patna,” said Sankrit.

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