Student goes missing from residential school; parents stage protest in Mancherial

Parents of a Class 9 student staged a protest after he went missing from a government-run Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Residential School in Chennur. The boy was later traced in Karimnagar after going there to attend a friend’s birthday and brought back safely.

Mancherial: A student’s parents staged a protest demanding officials take steps to trace him after he went missing from a government-run Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Residential School in Chennur on Thursday.

The parents expressed concern over the disappearance of their son, Peddapolu Vishnuvardhan, a Class 9 student at the school. They urged school officials to take steps to ensure that students did not leave the campus without their consent. On receiving information about the protest, police rushed to the spot and pacified the parents while launching a search.

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The parents withdrew the protest when the student was traced in Karimnagar after he went there to attend his friend’s birthday. Police said the student was brought back to the school, bringing relief to the parents.