JAIPUR: It has been a harrowing 40 days for a city-based advocate after two of her daughters went missing from school.
Avdesh Kumar Purohit said he had dropped two of his daughters at their school at 9am on February 3. Later in the day, the father learned that both the sisters left school and could not be found anywhere. Purohit said he filed an FIR at Mahesh Nagar police station and raised doubts about the school.
“I doubt teachers of the school too, how could they allow the girls to just leave their compound without prior permission from us,” he said. He added that one of the girls was a student of class 12, while her sister studied in class 11 in the same school.
Jaipur police commissioner Anand Shrivastava said that a special team was constituted from the very first day the kids went missing. “Police teams were sent to Lucknow in search of the two girls. We even contacted our counterparts in Uttar Pradesh and undertook a major search operation there,” he said.
As per Shrivastava, police learned that the two girls were looking for paying guest (PG) accommodation in Lucknow. “There is a team of over 40 police personnel that is working round-the-clock. The teams have visited Bhopal, Delhi, Indore and Lucknow to track down the girls,” he said.
Police said investigation into the case was being supervised by an additional commissioner and a DCP.
“There is a daily monitoring of the case,” Shrivastava said. Police said that the girls had also spoken to one of their teachers.
The family, however, is distraught that their children could not be found even after 40 days. “The school had said the girls left the premises because they were taken ill. I dropped them to school at 9am and they left school at 10am. How could the staff allow students to walk away alone,” Purohit asked.
