Madhya Pradesh: Class 4 Girl Student Cooks Up Abduction Story After Bunking School, Feared Teacher’s Ire for Missing Exam
The girl then cooked up an abduction story before her parents to cover up her absence from school and justify her late arrival at home, police said.
Bhopal: A Standard IV girl student in a government primary school in a Madhya Pradesh town bunked her class for fear of incurring teacher’s ire for skipping her exam and then cooked up an abduction story to cover up her misadventure, police said on Wednesday.
The ten-year-old girl, a resident of district headquarters of Rewa, had failed to appear her exam in her school, held on July 29, for some reasons and was scared of attending her class for fear of incurring teacher’s ire when she went to her school after a gap of around a week, on August four, police said.
However, instead of going to the school, she roamed around the town till evening before returning home on that day, police said.
The girl then cooked up an abduction story before her parents to cover up her absence from school and justify her late arrival at home, police said.
She told her parents that two motorcycle-borne youths had kidnapped her and she managed to escape from their clutches finally.
Her parents lodged a complaint with the local police on Tuesday.
According to the local city superintendent of police Ritu Upadhyay, the police started examining footage of all the 20 CCTVs installed at different places in the town and found that the girl was roaming around in her bicycle on that day.
Following this, the police started interrogating her during which she revealed the truth.
The police then counselled her and asked her teachers to treat her with kindness and affection, sources said.
