The police on Wednesday evening recued the three school students who had gone missing from the Sukinda chromite mine colony under the Kaliapani police station in Jajpur district on Sunday from a hotel at the Badamabadi bus-stand in Cuttack, Kaliapani PS IIC Raisen Murmu said on Thursday.
The students Rahul Karua (14), son of Charana Karua, Tapas Jena (14), son of Surendra Jena, and Iswar Mohanty (14), son of Gurucharana Mohanty, were working as child labourers in Tarini hotel in Cuttack since Tuesday after they had spent all their money.
The three students were reading in Class IX in a local school. On Sunday evening, they had gone to attend tuition class but did not return to their houses. Their parents filed FIRs in the police station on Monday.The police managed to locate the boys in the hotel while they were working as labourers and handed them over to their parents.