Schoolgirls send cops on wild goose chase

Chennai: Two schoolgirls, aged 11 and 10, sent the police on a wild goose chase in Neelankarai claiming to have been kidnapped in a car after school hours on Friday.

However, police investigations backed by CCTV footage recovered from the locality around the time they claimed to have been kidnapped called their bluff. It was revealed that the girls played the kidnap drama to avoid the parent teacher interaction in their school on Saturday.

The sisters are students of a private school in Semmenchery and reside at Vettuvankeni. The girls’ father, Singaraj, a restaurateur, approached the Neelankarai police on Friday after the girls told their father that they were abducted in a car and dropped after they started screaming two kilometers from the spot they were taken from.

Investigations also revealed that they were seen loitering on the East Coast road, when a parent of one of their classmates spotted them and dropped them in a car back home. “The girls’ father approached us the next day perturbed asking us to investigate the issue, though his children came home safely,”  Neelankarai inspector M.S. Bhaskar said.

The girls maintained that they were abducted in a car in front of a medical shop near Vettuvankeni junction. “However, when we checked the CCTV footages from four cameras in the area around the time, the alleged kidnap happened, the girls were seen walking on the road,” the inspector added.