Hyderabad, Feb. 6 -- The Balapur police have launched a search operation for a 13-year-old boy who has been reported missing since Monday night.

Identified as Adnan, the boy, a madrassa student, failed to return home from his classes in the Errakunta area of Hyderabad, prompting concern from his family.

Adnan would go to madrassa in Errakunta every morning and return at around 8 pm. The boy had taken Rs 800 from his parents to pay tuition fee at the madrassa. However, when he did not return on Monday, February 5, his family got worried went to the madrassa, where a teacher told them that the boy had already left and he had not paid the fee.

"A case has been registered and efforts are on to trace the missing boy," Balapur PS SHO B Venka...