Mangaluru, Feb 4: The two teenage girl students of a Mangaluru based private college, who went missing under mysterious circumstances on February 1, were tracked down in Shoranur of Palakkad district in Kerala on Thursday.
The photos of Smrithi and Jacqueline, both aged around 17 years and pursuing pre university course together, had gone viral on social media after their disappearance. Both are from the Commerce stream.
On February 1, after attending classes, the two had left the college around 2.30 p.m. They did not return home which led their parents to register a missing complaint with the Mangaluru North Police the same evening. While one girl is a resident of Chilimbi, the other is from Surathkal.
The police had failed to locate the students who were not even carrying mobile phones with them. The use of mobile phones by the students is barred by the college administration. Police Commissioner M. Chandra Sekhar had formed a special team to trace the two girls.
However, on Thursday morning one of the girls reportedly called her uncle and informed that they were in Kerala. The latter immediately informed the Mangaluru North Police. A team of police headed by Inspector Shantaram have left the city to bring back the girls sources said. It is learnt that the girls had decided to leave the city due to the academic pressure.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
Comments
beautiful girls must have boyfriends.
look at the girls face looks like very intelligent, reason will be different.
yahh this institution is giving so much educational and practical trouble. i request management to take strict action against lecturers.
please dont trust these girls.
duffers dont trust these girls they are simply bluffing. they went with boy friends to kerala,
thindh charbi baidhndh, parents should teach them good lessons. escaping somewhere its easy for them. i think its all preplanned they hid something else.
simply blaming college, they may be having some prime reason for the escape.
Both the College and the parents pressure on young children. Thank God they did not commit suicide like many children did these days are taking extreme steps. No problem 4 days kerala tour.
God bless them and wish them a good future.
And a lesson to all parents and teachers.
So cute girls. May god protect them.
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