Boy from AP who left with teacher returned to parents

A 14-year-old boy from Andhra Pradesh, who was traveling to New Delhi with his teacher without the consent of his parents, was spotted in a train and handed over to his father by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Bhopal.

The boy, from Kurnool in AP, and the teacher were traced by the Bhopal RPF on getting information from their counterparts in Hyderabad, to whom the parents had approached after they came to know that their son and the teacher had left by a train, RPF sources said.

"We got information from the Hyderabad RPF that the class 9 student, studying at a private school in APs Kurnool district, was missing," Bhopal’s RPF police station in-charge Nihal Singh said today.

The RPF was informed that the boy was traveling with his 27-year-old social science teacher in Telangana Express going to Delhi, he said.

The police found the boy and the woman in S-6 coach of the train on Tuesday night. Initially, they pretended to be siblings and said they were going to Delhi for sight-seeing, he said.

However, the RPF personnel identified them from the photos sent by their Hyderabad counterparts on WhatsApp, and took them off the train, the official said.

The boy was then handed over to his father who had come here yesterday from AP, he said.

The relatives of teacher also reached here from AP and took her back, Singh said.

"The teachers intention of taking the boy along with her is not yet clear. The Andhra Pradesh police would carry out further investigations. The boys family members have not filed any complaint against the woman," he said.