Patna: A Class VIII student, Anand Kumar (15), mysteriously went missing from the hostel of a residential school under Deepnagar police station in Nalanda district on Friday. The incident took a dramatic turn when the school administration allegedly told his family that he had fled the hostel and later drowned in the Panchane river.Enraged family members and local residents blocked the Biharsharif-Rajgir highway, alleging murder. Meanwhile, school authorities, including the principal and director, reportedly switched off their mobile phones and could not be contacted.The victim’s father, Alok Raj, accused the school management of foul play, claiming that it gave contradictory accounts of his son’s disappearance. He said the family received conflicting versions regarding a text message and the boy’s alleged jump into the river. Although Anand’s T-shirt was recovered from the riverbank, his whereabouts remain unknown.Deepnagar SHO Vimlesh Kumar said, “Police and SDRF teams have launched an intensive search operation to trace the missing child.”
