*Dada's fans rescued from city streets *10 Jan 2008, 0216 hrs IST,TNN KOLKATA: Five small-town Jharkhand boys, who had come to the city to meet Sourav Ganguly, were rescued by police on Wednesday.
After coming to Kolkata they realised their idol was not in town. Disappointed, the five then thought of going to Mumbai, this time to meet Shahrukh Khan. But that was not to be. A team from the New Market police station found them shivering in the cold close to midnight on a Mirza Ghalib Street pavement. The five - Avinash Kumar, Nabendu Tudu, Nikhil Munda, Krishna Gope and Manoj Kumar Behera - are students of Class VI at the Jadugoda Atomic Research Centre School. They idolised the cricketer and film-star and wanted to meet them both. As Kolkata was closer to home, it was their first choice. For the last few months, they had been saving their pocket money. On Tuesday morning, they left their homes wearing school uniforms. From Jadugoda they boarded a bus to Jamshedpur. They reached the steel city sometime in the afternoon and then took a train to Kolkata. It was late at night when they reached Howrah. They crossed the Hooghly and reached Esplanade. From the few people they met on the way, the five asked where Sourav stayed and were told the cricket team is in Australia. The five ate at a roadside shop, but with no place to stay, took refuge on a Mirza Ghalib Street footpath. A police patrol noticed them and stopped to enquire. The cops took the boys to the police station and then to a CINI-ASHA home. Police also informed their parents, who later took them back home. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2688252,prtpage-1.cms -- Jharkhand Forum A Global Network of Jharkhand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jharkhand.org.in/forum
