Noida: A total of 13 young men staying at the de-addiction center in the Noida 112 sector escaped from the facility after cutting the iron mesh from a window at the beginning of Thursday.
The center, which was run by the Sabrr Foundation for the past two years, did not have a security guard guard.
One young man who escaped himself keep the center.
13 Youth, all aged between 20 and 30 years, live in two rooms.
They allegedly cut iron mesh from the window first and left the rental single-story house where the center ran around 2am on Thursday.
They then cut the boundary wall grid, masculate and escape.
Police said that the escape youth had been identified as a resident of Delhi Inderdit Dabas, Rohit Verma, Vishal Pawar, Ujjwal Saini and Ali; Shivam Sharma from Bijnour; Ashok Kumar from Palwal; Raj Kumar Verma from TIGRI; Vinay Kapoor from Gurgaon; Kartik from REWARI; Rohit Chandila from Noida; Josad Khan from Ghaziabad and Aryan from Greater Noida.
Vinod Kumar Singh, Sho of Sector 49 Police Station, said the de-addiction center had filed a complaint of missing people.
Chandra Kant, a social worker with the Sabrr Foundation, said a total of 28 young men lived in the de-addiction center before 13 of them escaped.
“Narcotics addicts that come to the center usually face cravings.
It becomes difficult for them to control themselves at the time and we understand it.
The young men got the chance and reach it.
They fled by jumping out of the building and crossing the boundary wall,” he said.
Kant added that they did not save security guards because they did not want to scare the young people who came to the center of addiction de-addiction.
Meanwhile, two of the young men who had passed back to their homes on Thursday night.
“The other two have contacted their families and can join them.
The rest is being tracked,” Additional DCP (Noida) Ranvijay Singh told TII.