2 minors missing from observation home

AURANGABAD: Police have launched a hunt for two minors, who went missing from a city-based observation home on Saturday.
The city police have now registered a case of kidnapping and asked the observation home officials to help the investigation team with every minute detail of the minors.
According to the police, it is very rare that two minors have gone missing from the observation home all of a sudden.The minors were pursuing their studies from city-based schools.
Jagannath Paaste, superintendent of Yashwantrao Chavan Balvikas Kendra, said the eleven-year-old child, whose mother is currently residing in Bhiwandi, was on a vacation before he returned to the observation home about a couple of days ago.
"The two kids started their day on Saturday morning, along with other minors lodged at our observation home. But when all the students were preparing to go to school sometime after having their breakfast around 8.30am, the two disappeared all of a sudden," Paaste said.
Paaste said initially they thought that the two might have left for school. But when they did not return to the observation home in the evening, we contacted their respective schools only to find that the two did not report to school either," he said.
After looking out for the minors for some time, Paaste reached the Cidco police station and lodged a complaint.
Kailash Prajapati, inspector of the Cidco police station, said, "We have registered a case of kidnapping. The details, including their pictures and descriptions, have been shared with our counterparts across the state."
Police said the nine-year-old boy has been raised at the city-based Bhartiya Samaj Seva Kendra since his early days, while the other boy's mother had approached the child welfare committee here last year and expressed her inability to raise the child.
Considering the fact that she was a single mother, the committee accepted her plea and handed over the child to the committee, which later referred him to the observation home.
The Cidco police said initially they thought that the boy might have gone to his mother residing in Bhiwandi, along with the other missing child. But when the police contacted her, she too was unaware of her son going missing.