Mangaluru: a strange case of four students – three ages 12 and a 21-year-old woman – who was reported missing from the cracked Bengaluru apartment complex when the escape was tracked in the city on Tuesday.
Police said four friends wanted to move to a village and stay together when they were afraid they had to separate for study and work in the city.
The minors – two boys and girls – and 21-year-old children, a third year BCA student, left home on Sunday told their parents that they would play cricket.
“They went to Yeshwantpur train station and traveled to Haveri, then took the train again and went to Mysuru and Arsibier and returned to Bengaluru.
From Bengaluru, they went to Mangalaru on the bus,” said DCP (law and order) Hariram Shankar.
The case was registered at the Soladevanahalli police station in Bengaluru after four did not return home.
They deleted their social media accounts to prevent tracking, police said.
Prashanth and Ramesh’s autoricksaw drivers came to the group at 7:30 a.m.
when they got off the bus.
“They looked scared.
They have about four bags, two of them school bags.
They said they were looking for a cottage but we were suspicious because they were young,” Prashanth said.
The driver took four to the police station.
Police Commissioner Mangaluru N Shashi Kumar said: “The four close friends and playing cricket and other games every Sunday.
Their parents told them that they would send them to the hostel.” He said byy when they reach Mangaluru, they have more or less run out of money.
“Locals found their behavior suspicious when they tried to throw their bags along with the ornaments they were wearing, it was possible to project that they were robbed,” DCP added, said the children’s claims were being verified.