Hamza Basit (Left) says he wants to be there when Ramzaan (Right) is reunited with his family.
Fifteen-year-old Ramzaan Khan's story has already spanned three countries and seen twists worthy of blockbusters like Slumdog Millionaire and Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
For the last two years, he has been living in a boys' home in Bhopal run by a charitable group. He was sent there by the police who picked him up from the Railway Station.
At the NGO Aarambh, Ramzaan told the workers that he is an orphan from Ranchi. It was only after they won his trust three months later he told them he was from Pakistan and had run away from Bangladesh when he was just 11 after his father moved and remarried there.
"I ran away from home as my step mother accused me stealing and they beat me up. I wanted to go to my mother in Pakistan and so I took a train and entered India," he says.
For two years between 2011 and 2013, he lived off the streets and railway stations. "I travelled to Agartala, Ranchi, Mumbai, Delhi and then Bhopal where the police caught me and brought me here," he said.
Ramzaan was nine when his father left his mother in Pakistan and brought him to Bangladesh.
Since then he has been trying to look for his mother but with little success. The big breakthrough came after a local newspaper published his story earlier this month.
A 20-year-old chartered accounting student Hamza Basit read the story and went looking for the boy.
"I loved my mother and I could imagine what he must have been going through. I instantly wanted to help the family," Hamza says.
He noted the address of Ramzaan's home in Pakistan and got to work by sending friend requests to people in Karachi.
"I came across an officer from the child protection unit of UNICEF in Karachi. They spread the story of Ramzaan by announcing his whereabouts from mosques and by putting up posters in Pakistan. Within a week we were able to get Ramzaan to speak to his mother, sister and grandmother," Hamza says.
Ramzaan is overjoyed. But his reunion with his family has been stalled by the lack of documents and an uncooperative father.
The NGO Aarambh and Hamza have now united in their efforts to convince the Indian government to facilitate boy's return to his home.
"I would just like be there when Ramzaan finally meets his mother on the border," Hamza says.