Chennai: A 13-year-old girl rescued from Veppumpattu railway station in neighbouring Thiruvallur district on Saturday evening by police told investigators that she was kidnapped from her school in Karnataka on Friday.
She identified herself as Rajeswari, a class VIII student from Gulbarga district in Karnataka. The girl has been sent to a government home in Thiruvallur on Sunday by the police.
The police are waiting for her parents to reach Thiruvallur on Monday to know more details about the alleged kidnap incident. Members of public spotted her at the railway station on Saturday. As she was not able to speak in Tamil and nobody knew her mother tongue Kannada, the people alerted the police.
A police team from Chevvapettai police station rushed to the railway station and rescued her. One of the persons from the police team managed to talk to the girl in Kannada. During enquiry, the girl claimed that she was a student of government school in Malgathi village in Gulbarga district in Karnataka. She said she was playing in the school ground after keeping the bag in the class room when two persons came there and told that her father Nagendrappa, a farmer, had an accident.
The two reportedly asked her to accompany them in the car immediately. "I got in to the car. The one of them kept an hand kerchief on my face. I became unconscious. When I regained my conscious I was locked in a room. I managed to escape from there and reached a railway station nearby. I got into a train and got down at Veppumpattu," she told the police.
The police is not yet ready to believe her story completely. "Some kids cook up stories. But we will have to check what had happened in the school on Friday. We are waiting for her parents to come," Chevvapettai police said.
