Assam: Two missing students handed over to parents

DOOMDOOMA: Two students of Don Bosco High school, Doomdooma who went missing since Wednesday finally got apprehended in a dramatic turn of events by Mumbai Police at Santacruz airport in the wee hours on Thursday and were handed over to the parents who rushed to Mumbai on getting information from the Police.

The duo Abhigyan Mahanta (Prince, 15), son of Mintu Mahanta, a petty trader and Sewali Mahanta, homemaker of Bezbarooah Sarani, Doomdooma under Doomdooma Police Station (PS) and Subham Gupta (14), son of Santosh Kumar Gupta, a retail shopkeeper and Suman Gupta, teacher, Saikhowa Hindi High School under Dhola Police Station are students of Class 9. Both of them instead of going to school on Wednesday fled the spot together in a pre-planned manner as is evident from the subsequent happenings.

According to reports, Abhigyan’s mother Sewali Mahanta took her son to school on that day around 8 am and dropped him in front of the school gate as usual and immediately returned home thereafter. But Abhigyan instead of entering into the school premises stopped there after seeing his classmate Subham who was waiting for him there beforehand after coming by bus from Dhola.

The incident came to light when the class teacher concerned called at Abhigyan’s house after not seeing him in the class. It became cause for worry for both the families and school authority. On checking the CCTV footage it became evident that both Abhigyan and Subham instead of entering into the school went to the nearby shops for making some purchases and then went away.

Finding no other trace, the families of both the students informed the matter to Doomdooma PS through an FIR. Significantly, Subham’s family divulged that he (Subham) brought around rupees one lakh cash with him from cash deposit of their business money in the house.

The police immediately swung into action and found that both of them had gone to ATC Mall, Tinsukia after 10 am as detected in the CCTV footage there. But became clueless thereafter about their whereabouts. It was really cause for concern for both the families as to why the two students had decamped with so much of money in their possession.

Luckily due to prompt action of one of the top ranking Police Officer in CM’s security, both of them got apprehended at busy Mumbai Santacruz Airport in the wee hours. Meanwhile, members of both the families learnt to have taken possession of their wards from the custody of Mumbai Police and they thanked profusely the Mumbai Police for their prompt action in rescuing the two missing students.

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