Afraid that she may be forced to drop out of school for scoring less in exams, a class 9 student left home Tuesday but did not reach her school, following which the family approached the police who traced her within a few hours. The girl, a student of a Delhi government school, is a resident of west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh and was traced in about three hours after the police were informed, police said.

Footages of multiple cameras installed on the route between her house and the school, located a few kilometres away in the same area, were scanned, a senior police officer said. The 14-year-old girl took an auto but she got down before the school near JJ park and roamed around, another officer said. The girl usually went to school with her brother but because of an exam, she left for school in an auto alone while her brother was at home preparing for his next papers.