BHOPAL: Panic gripped Piplani area after the news of six minors going missing from home went viral in the locality on Wednesday. Acting on information police registered a missing person case which was later converted into an abduction case. Later, it was revealed that the group of kids had gone to Ujjain to offer prayers at Mahakal temple without informing their parents.
When cops were scanning the footage of CCTV cameras fitted in the nearby areas to find some clue, a police officer found them sleeping at a garden near Sultania hospital on Wednesday after which they were recovered. Police counselled them and handed them over to their family members. Investigating Officer SI Kuldeep Khare said that six minors aged 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15, all residents of Piplani locality, went missing on Tuesday. Initially their family members thought that they were roaming in a nearby locality and would return home soon as they used to hang out together.
