A female teacher, who had intimate relations with a 14-year-old student for over a year, eloped with the boy in the western Indian state of Gujrat on Friday.

According to local reports, the boy, a grade eight student, and the 26-year-old unidentified teacher were recently rebuked by the school authorities for being in an intimate relationship. On Friday, the father of the boy filed a police complaint stating that his son was missing. The man told the officers that the teacher seduced his son and took him away.

“When I reached home at around 7 p.m., I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4 p.m. We searched for him in the neighborhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him. I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the boy’s father stated in the FIR.

Police were investigating the incident and the search was underway for the duo who remained on the run as of Sunday. Police said they were finding it difficult to trace them as they were not carrying their mobile phones.

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