NOIDA: Two Class 8 students who went missing from outside their school in Sector 56 on Sept 5 morning were found at Anand Vihar Railway station on Saturday. The boys were apparently nervous after their exam results were announced and feared their parents might scold them.
The boys, both 13, were allegedly spotted leaving Uttarakhand Public School together around 11 am from a back gate of the campus by their classmates even as one of their parents was waiting outside the school’s front gate on Thursday.The school got over early on Thursday, around 10.45 am, due to Teacher’s Day programme.
Seven police teams scanned footage of at least 500 CCTV cameras to trace them after a complaint was lodged by their parents on Friday.
“Our teams scanned the school’s CCTV camera feeds first and found the two boys took an auto from outside the campus and were dropped off at a CNG station. To find more clues, our teams were deployed across Delhi borders. From CCTV footage of over 500 cameras, placed at different corners of the city, including petrol pumps, shops and streets, we finally traced them to the railway station. When we reached the boys, they were hiding under a staircase at the station and were not willing to return,” SHO Sector 58 Amit Kumar said.
Additional DCP (Noida) Manish Kumar Mishra said cops accessed footage of cameras installed at various societies, metro stations and shops from Delhi to Ghaziabad and all adjacent border areas. “The team that traced the children was awarded a prize money of Rs 20,000 by the police commissioner,” he said.
Father of one of the boys told TOI it was a blessing that the children returned home safely. “Don’t know what bothered him so much, but from now onwards we will be aware and try to understand his situation more,” he said.
