Puthuppally couple adopts four girl children from Pune station

Gandhinagar( Kottayam): Fate and fortune intertwined to bind the couple Thomas and Neena with

four little girl children. In 2019, Puthuppally natives P A Thomas and Neena planned for a Mumbai

trip. But they could not get train tickets. Hence they booked tickets to Pune station and decided to

board a train to Mumbai from there. At the station, their eyes focussed on four little sisters sitting in

a corner of the station. Thomas went near them and tried to talk with them and identified that their

parents had abandoned them in the station four days ago. Within a short while, the couple could

feel a very warm affection for the little girls.

The moment Thomas saw the children, he desired to bring them into their lives. Wife Neena too

agreed. Then both of them cancelled their Mumbai trip and went to a police station with a friend in

Pune. By completing the legal proceedings, they took temporary custody of the children for a

month. When they returned home, the relatives did not receive them well and this made Thomas

and family shift to a rented house. The preliminary procedures of adoption were completed in 2019

and he received recognition from the Ministry of Women and Child Development last July.

Meanwhile, Thomas got a PRO job under the Govt Medical College Development Committee of

Kottayam and he could build a home of his own.

Though the elder daughter Eyra knows a little Hindi, the girls are now absolutely Malayalis. After

Thomas adopted the children, the couple had given birth to a child. But due to heart-related issues

the child passed away and then the only relief for them was their four little kids