Six Students Vanish After Class 12 Exam in Uttar Pradesh: What We Know

A frantic search is underway in Uttar Pradesh after six female students mysteriously disappeared following their class 12th board examination, prompting a police investigation and raising concerns about their whereabouts.

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Key Points

Six female students from Chandpur and Himpur in Uttar Pradesh are missing after their class 12th board exam.
The students disappeared after the Sanskrit exam conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education.
Police have registered a case and initiated a search operation, including phone surveillance, to find the missing students.
One of the students' mobile phones was initially traced to Haridwar, Uttarakhand, before being switched off.
Multiple police teams are involved in the search for the students, who are believed to be friends from surrounding rural areas.

Six female students who left their college in Chandpur in Bijnor district after appearing in the class 12th board examinations have gone missing, police said, adding that the students did not return home after the exam held on the final day of the session.

SHO of Chandpur police station Amit Kumar, on Friday, said that the Sanskrit exam conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education took place on Thursday evening.

When the six students, who are from the Chandpur and Himpur areas, did not return home after the exam, their families conducted a thorough search. Eventually, in the late evening, they filed a formal complaint with the police.

Initially, the families initiated a search on their own; however, upon failing to obtain any information regarding their whereabouts, they alerted the local police station.

Police Investigation and Search Efforts

According to the police, a case was registered, and a search operation for the students has been initiated. The police are using phone surveillance technology to assist in the investigation. One of the students' mobile phones was traced to Uttarakhand.

Police sources said that the students reside in the surrounding rural areas and are friends.

Initially, the mobile location of one device was traced to Haridwar, but all mobile phones have since been turned off. Several police teams have been formed to search for the students.

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