Kochi: A special investigation team was formed by the Kochi city police on Thursday in a bid to trace the four 15-year-old girls who went missing from Cheranalloor and Pachalam areas.
The girls, all students of LMCC High School at Pachalam, are learnt to have absconded from their houses on Wednesday evening. The police has so far received three missing complaints from the parents of the girls, but the fourth parent is yet to lodge a complaint. Hence the police is unsure about who is the fourth missing girl.
According to sources, a police team has already left to Thodupuzha in Idukki, but the cops are yet to get any clues. Their attempt to track the mobile phones of the girls was in vain too as the girls had switched off their phones.
“We are doing our best to track them down. The support of cyber police has also been sought. But our job is difficult as the girls are not switching on their phones,” the police said.
The police first received a complaint at the Cheranalloor station where one of the four parents’ reported the missing case. Later two more complaints were registered at Ernakulam North police stations too, but the fourth set of parents are yet to approach the police.
The parents who lodged the complaint at Cheranalloor had reportedly told the police that some people had seen their daughter traveling with three other girls in an autorickshaw on the evening that she went missing.
The police could not collect background details about the girls too as their school has been closed for the holidays.
