The hunters brought the boy to an orphanage where he was baptized and given the name Sanichar, which means “Saturday” in Urdu because that’s the day he arrived at the orphanage.

Sanichar struggled a lot. The boy was considered to have a really low IQ: father Erhardt, who was the head of the orphanage, noted that though the boy was “undoubtedly pagal (imbecile or idiotic), [he] still shows signs of reason and sometimes actual shrewdness.” Besides, he never learnt how to speak. At the orphanage, many tried to teach him to do so, but he never managed to learn how to speak, read, or write.