New Delhi, March 4 -- A 17-year-old boy from Delhi's Rohini, unwilling to take his final exams, left home and travelled over 2,000 kilometres in Tamil Nadu to work as a labourer at a construction site and was living in a slum, an official said on Monday.

According to the police, the missing report of the boy was filed on February 21 in Budh Vihar Police Station.

"The boy was studying in class 11 in a reputed school at Connaught Place and has no interest in studies," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vikram Singh said.

The officer further said that the investigation revealed that he did not want to give the final examination. On February 21, he left his house and sent a message to his father saying that he was leaving the house and no...