A woman appealed for camel milk to be sent for her autism affected son (Representative photo)
MUMBAI: A desperate Mumbai woman’s plea on Twitter for camel milk from Rajasthan for her three-and-a-half-year-old autistic child during the lockdown went viral, leading to an Odisha-based IPS officer stepping in to help her source it.
On April 4, Chembur resident Neha Kumari tagged PM Narendra Modi in her tweet that read: “@narendramodi Sir I have a 3.5 yrs old child suffering from autism and severe food allergies. He survives on Camel Milk and limited qty of pulses. When lockdown started I didn’t have enough camel milk to last this long. Help me get Camel Milk or its powder from Sadri (Rajasthan).”
The message was retweeted, and heard, by many, and offers of help poured in. IPS officer Arun Bothra, who is posted as CEO at the Central Electricity Supply Utility in Odisha and has a sizeable following on Twitter, was alerted about Neha’s post by one of his followers.
Bothra, originally from Rajasthan, told TOI, “