Patna, April 26: The Class VIII student of Don Bosco School who had gone missing on Monday, returned home the same night.

Vivek Kumar had gone missing after he went to school on Monday.

Vivek, a resident of the Gosaitola area under Patliputra police station chose to walk away from his house after his mother scolded him for not doing very well in his examination.

The son of RPF jawan Vijay Kumar, 14-year-old Vivek, had received a scolding from his parents on Saturday evening for not getting good marks in his Class VII final examination. He went to school on Monday at the usual time, but did not return home until late evening.

The family lodged a missing diary with the Patliputra police station after the boy did not return even after 9pm yesterday.

“According to the information given by his parents, the boy was given a scolding on Sunday night. The police had started the investigations until around 12 midnight, when the parents informed the police that the boy had returned home by himself,” an officer at Patliputra police station said.

The boy had thought of a trip to Danapur and was roaming all around the place.

“He then went to a friend’s place in Danapur before finally returning home around midnight. The parents informed the police about all this,” the officer said.

With the parents unavailable for any comments, psychologists said the parents needed to take care of their wards in the present scenario.

“The current situation is a tough one and the children are under a lot of pressure to perform. Often many of them are not able to cope with the intense pressure applied on them. As a result, they tend to lag behind. Scolding and comparing with other students and beating is definitely not the solutions and it might lead to serious repercussions,” Anil Kumar, a city-based psychiatrist told The Telegraph.

He pointed out that parents needed to be more patient with their wards to avoid such incidents.

“There have been many instances in which the children have left homes never to return or have even commit suicide for being under tremendous pressure. The parents these days have to be extra careful while dealing with their children. The best thing is to be close to them and discuss every issue. The parents should know what problems their children are facing — not only in academics but also in personal life. They should also find out if they are suffering from any emotional stress,” he said adding that if parents do all this, things can improve a lot and such incidents would start coming down.

Earlier this year the state capital has seen a number of suicides particularly involving teenagers because of various reasons.

On January 28 this year 15-year-old Priya Mrinalini, a Class X of the Danapur-based St Dominic Savio’s School, hung herself as she thought her parents loved her younger brother more.

On February 4, Digvijay alias Apul, 15, also committed suicide by hanging himself because he was under a lot of pressure to pass in the examination. A Class X student of Devipad Chaudhary Shahid Smarak High School, the boy had failed to secure pass marks in his matriculation examinations on four previous occasions.