Court allows recovered students to go home

The Rawalpindi police on Tuesday brought back to the city the six students, who went missing from a private school.
The police presented the students before the magistrate, Rai Ijaz Ahmed, who set the students free. The six students, three boys and three girls, went missing on Thursday. The students told the police they were not abducted by anyone and instead fled on their own. The students also made telephone calls to their parents and demanded ransom for their recovery. The said students of 9th and 10th classes went missing from a private school located in Wilayat Colony of Chaklala Scheme III Thursday (January 19).
On Monday the Peshawar Police recovered the students from a local hotel. They were brought back to the city by a team of the Rawalpindi police. The students included Abu Bakr, Wajiha Asghar and Areeba Akram of class 10th and Waleed Akram, Hamza Ahmed and Iqra Naseem of class 9th of the Apsis School System. The incident had surfaced when the parents of these students approached the police and submitted applications for the registration of abduction cases.