Three Class 10 students go missing from Sakleshpur village, traced to Mysuru

HASSAN: Three boys, all aged 16, went missing from Kuniganahalli in Sakleshpur taluk after they set out for school around 7.30 am on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Sakleshpur Rural police rushed to Mysuru on getting information that the boys had been found there.

The three boys, Sharat, Dhananjaya and Murali are students of Class 10 at the goverment high school at Adaravalli. When they did not turn up at school, the teachers informed the parents, who launched a search. Sharat was carrying a mobile phone, but it was switched off.

The boys’ parents Dharmaprakash and Manu of Kuniganahalli and Mahendra of Kiruhunase villages approached the police after failing to locate them. On Thursday, the Sakleshpur police received information that the boys were in Mysuru.

According to sources, the trio had not prepared well for the preparatory examinations and hence, may have left home. They had attended two of the preparatory exams, the sources said.