CISF comes to aid of stranded girl at airport

BANGALORE: When CISF personnel at the Bangalore airport spotted six-year-old Vadima Taj wandering through the lobbies late in the night, her father was on board a flight to Dubai and her mother was in a car to Tumkur.
Though the first-standard student tried to recollect her house number, the personnel traced the address from the passengers'' list.
They called up her house in Tumkur and said the little Vadima was with them, to the shock of the relatives who had just reached there in two cars unaware of the child being left behind.
Vadima had come to the airport with her mother and relatives to see off her father Mohammed Qasim. After Quasim boarded the 8.30 am flight on Thursday, the family returned home in two cars.
But, they did not know that they had left the girl at the airport, CISF commandant Udayan Bannerjee said.
Family members in both the cars thought that the girl was in the other car. The mother thought the child was with the uncle and the uncle thought she was with her mother.
Meanwhile, CISF personnel were trying to figure out the whereabouts of the stranded girl. She told them that her father had gone to Dubai and she had come with her mother and other relatives.
As the little girl was struggling to memorise, Sumit Chatterjee, a CISF constable from the Quick Reaction Team, checked the passengers'' list with the airline and got the telephone number of her residence, CISF assistant commandant T. Srinivas said.
The reunion was more dramatic than the numerous emotional good-byes at the airport, the officials recalled. Vadima sure has an adventure to tell her classmates in the Bishops Surgeon School, Tumkur.