Thane, In an incident, 5 teenage boys, who had together gone for a late evening walk, have gone missing from a village in Murbad taluka of Thane district. Police sub-inspector Ramesh Gaikwad of Murbad police station said, that the minors have gone missing since the evening of June 17.

Umesh Dattatraya Wagh 13, Durvesh Namdeo Thackeray 15, Pritesh Jayant Khutare 15, Yogesh Tukaram Thackeary 15 and Sopan Deepak Thakeray 13 - did not return home, after they went for a walk together on late Friday evening.

Gaikwad said, "these boys are students of a local school. Their parents carried out a search, but approached the police today after they failed to trace the boys".

A case under IPC section 363 has been registered and five police teams have been formed to find the boys.

According to the police officer, "Police have taken serious cognisance of the case and teams have been dispatched in search of the children".