Class 8 student goes missing from residential school in Odisha’s Dhenkanal

A student of Class 8 has gone missing for the last six days from Muliabanka residential school under Badamba police limits in Dhenkanal, sources said on Sunday.

According to the sources, police have been searching for the minor boy identified as Jena Tiria, who is a resident of Chhotatentuli village under Gondia police limits of the district.

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Tiria absconded during the school’s recent annual sports meet and went incommunicado thereafter, the headmistress of the educational institution informed.

However, the boy’s family has criticised the school authorities, accusing them of negligence regarding the student’s disappearance.

“I cannot say where my brother has gone. We were studying together in this school,” Jena’s sister and student of Class 7 in the school Nandini Tiria said.

Local police have registered a case in this connection and are conducting an active search. Despite efforts, there have been no updates on Tiria's location since his disappearance six days ago.

“Whereabouts of the minor has not been known yet,” a senior cop from Gondia PS said.

When contacted, the school headmistress in charge Anima Mohapatra stated, “He (Tiria) told some students that he will go to work elsewhere.”

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“We had a sports meet on January 6. He left the school on that day, when we were busy in taking other students to the play ground,” the headmistress in charge added.

“I have lodged an FIR with local police and duly informed my department higher-ups about the minor boy’s disappearance,” the headmistress in-charge informed.