6 Bijnor girls missing after exam traced to Haridwar

Bijnor: Six Class 12 students, aged 17–18 years, who went missing after appearing for their Sanskrit board examination in Bijnor's Chandpur area on Thursday were traced to Uttarakhand's Haridwar district on Friday, police said.Officials said the girls had gone to a college in Chandpur to take their intermediate examination but did not return home even hours after the exam ended.The missing students included two girls from a village under the Heempur Deepa police station area and four others from Chandpur and nearby villages. When the girls failed to return, their families began searching for them. Relatives contacted classmates and visited each other's homes, only to find that none of the six had reached home.Around 10 pm on Thursday, the families approached Chandpur police station and lodged a complaint.Police registered a missing persons report and launched a search operation. A special team was formed, and the girls were eventually traced in the Roshnabad area of Haridwar with the help of surveillance.Chandpur SHO Amit Kumar said the girls had left home without informing their families as they wanted to become financially independent and were planning to take up jobs in a factory in Roshnabad.Police are completing further formalities before handing the girls over to their families.In an earlier case in Nov, two minor girls from Bijnor — a 14-year-old Class 9 student and a 17-year-old Class 12 student — who had gone missing after leaving home for school were traced in Ludhiana after a 23-day search and reunited with their families.