HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad police are searching for two teenaged students, a boy and a girl, who have been missing from home. They are both 15 and both students of what are called corporate educational institutions (basically, cram schools) in Telangana.
The two incidents are separate. Their anxious parents and relatives staged a dharna in front of the respective educational institutions this morning, leading to a tense situation at both places.
They also petitioned minister K T Rama Rao, a Twitter-happy VIP who often responds in Sushma Swaraj style to forlorn complaints of the helpless.
The boy, Gowri Shankar, is an Intermediate second-year student of a Narayana brand residential junior college located in the Madhapur quarter of Hyderabad. He was noticed missing from the college’s Samatha Campus hostel in Madhapur three days ago.
It wasn’t until Saturday that the Narayana management informed the boy's parents that they weren’t able to locate him.
The missing girl, Poornima Sai, is a student of Bhashyam School at Nizampet on the outskirts of Hyderabad. She has been missing since June 7. She went to school that day and did not return.
Gowri Shankar’s parents are angry that the Narayana brand college neglected to inform them about the absence of their child. They and their relatives protested in front of the college campus this morning, demanding action against the management.
Based on a complaint lodged by the boy's parents, the Madhapur police have booked a case and have set up a team of detectives to trace the boy. The Narayana brand college’s principal
Narender and two others have been taken into custody for questioning.
The girl’s parents too lodged a complaint with the police, who found that she had grown bored at school and was feeling the pressure put on her by the parents.
A source in the Bachupally police said, "We suspect she is moving in Hyderabad and Rachakonda and Cyberabad Commissionerate areas.”
She was last seen wearing black leggings and ash-colored T shirt.