A Std XII student from Sanpada in Navi Mumbai has gone untraceable ever since he ran away from home last week saying he did not want to study further and instead want to do a job, police said on Thursday. The boy studies in a college located in Chembur area of Mumbai, they said.

“On September 6, he told his parents that he did not want to study any further and wished to do a job. He packed his bag and left for Pune before them. Half-an-hour later, when his family members contacted him, he told them that he was already on board a Pune-bound train,” an officer of Sanpada police station said.