Noida, July 23 -- Three girls, aged 10, 12 and 13, who went missing from a school in Noida's Sector 51 on Monday were traced in Aligarh a day later after a local resident alerted police on noticing them wandering around, officers said on Tuesday.

Police registered a case under Section 137(2) (kidnapping) of the BNS and Section 75 of Juvenile Justice Act against two helpers and formed multiple teams to trace the girls after they went missing. But the investigation later found that the girls had left the school on their own. Police clarified that they are also looking into possible lapses on the school's part.

The girls, who had recently been shifted from children's homes in Aligarh, Ghaziabad and Amroha to a shelter home in Noida's Secto...