The missing: Students leave home, vanish into thin air
Disappearance blamed on school administration.
RAWALPINDI:
Six students of a private school went missing under unexplained circumstances three days ago. Three girls and three boys of classes nine and ten of a school in Chaklala Scheme-III did not reach school after they left their houses on Thursday.
Parents of the missing students and school administration officials lodged a complaint with Airport Police Station, who registered an abduction case on Saturday after the students remained missing. The police were asked to wait for two days in the hope that the missing students might return, according to Police Lines Deputy Superintendant (DSP) Malik Tariq.
“The circumstances seem to suggest that the students might have disappeared consensually with one another,” Tariq told The Express Tribune. The police have been trying to track the missing students through their cellphones and Tariq hoped they will soon be recovered. Tariq added that legal action may be pursued against the school’s administration after being informed about unwanted activities taking place on its premises.
Talking to the media, the parents alleged that their children escaped from the school after being beaten by the teachers, a charge the school’s principal denied. He countered by saying that on the day the students disappeared they were also
absent from school and the alleged punishment could not be the cause of their disappearance.
*Names have been withheld on the request of the parents
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2012.
Six students of a private school went missing under unexplained circumstances three days ago. Three girls and three boys of classes nine and ten of a school in Chaklala Scheme-III did not reach school after they left their houses on Thursday.
Parents of the missing students and school administration officials lodged a complaint with Airport Police Station, who registered an abduction case on Saturday after the students remained missing. The police were asked to wait for two days in the hope that the missing students might return, according to Police Lines Deputy Superintendant (DSP) Malik Tariq.
“The circumstances seem to suggest that the students might have disappeared consensually with one another,” Tariq told The Express Tribune. The police have been trying to track the missing students through their cellphones and Tariq hoped they will soon be recovered. Tariq added that legal action may be pursued against the school’s administration after being informed about unwanted activities taking place on its premises.
Talking to the media, the parents alleged that their children escaped from the school after being beaten by the teachers, a charge the school’s principal denied. He countered by saying that on the day the students disappeared they were also
absent from school and the alleged punishment could not be the cause of their disappearance.
*Names have been withheld on the request of the parents
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2012.