Ahmedabad: Two 17-year-old boys, one preparing for NEET and the other studying for a mechanical engineering diploma, have gone missing from Chandkheda after leaving their homes in the early hours of Oct 16. Chandkheda police registered a missing persons complaint on Oct 17 after their families failed to trace them.According to the complaint, the NEET aspirant is a Class XII student. His father, a private company employee, told police that the boy was last seen at home on the night of Oct 15. The family went to sleep around 11pm, while the boy remained in another room with his mother. The two were talking till around 1am. When the mother woke up around 4am, the boy was missing.The family found a nine-page note in a diary kept in the home’s temple. In the note, the teen reportedly wrote that he was leaving of his own accord to fulfil his dream, asked his family not to look for him and said that he would return on his own.The family later learnt that his friend, whom he knew from his Class X coaching class, too was missing from his home behind Chandkheda railway station.The other boy’s maternal uncle told the family that the teenager had left home around 1 am, saying he was going to collect prasad from the society garba event. He returned briefly around 1.30 am before leaving again while chatting on his phone. By 6.30am, the family found him and his bicycle missing.Two handwritten pages found on an air cooler at his home reportedly contained a message saying he wanted to become independent and create his identity through his own hard work. His mobile phone was switched off.
