They had played hooky from school, and when their father told them that he would be meeting their teacher and checking their attendance, they got scared and decided to run away to Nepal. By the time the parents reached the school, the three girls were aboard a state transport bus to Gorakhpur. What followed was a nerve-wracking six days for the parents who feared that their children had been kidnapped by human traffickers.
The runaway girls, two of whom were sisters, were finally traced to the Tarai area of Nepal at a relative’s home. DCP (northeast) Atul Kumar Thakur said the girls were reunited with their families at Sonia Vihar on May 9.
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