An unintentional name from a coin sales space has helped the Bengaluru police find three highschool women who ran away from their houses in Karnataka earlier this month. They have been discovered working at a Chennai manufacturing facility on September 23, police mentioned Monday.
Whereas one of many youngsters–from St Joseph’s Convent Women Excessive Faculty–was sad about her stepmother, one other was peeved along with her stepfather and the third had been disciplined by her mother and father for speaking to her boyfriend, based on police.
Police mentioned an astrologer had suggested the primary woman to watch out. “Her father has two wives and she or he was the daughter of his second spouse. Cautious of her stepmother, the woman feared she was in some kind of hazard,” an officer concerned within the investigation mentioned.
Quickly after they ran away from dwelling on September 6, police mentioned, the women have been robbed of Rs 30,000 at a railway station by a thief who diverted their consideration and snatched their bag. The three reached Chennai and sought an autorickshaw driver’s assist. “They launched themselves as orphans and claimed to have run away from an orphanage, sad with the amenities there. They requested the driving force to take them to Velankanni (Tamil Nadu) in order that they might discover jobs,” the police officer mentioned.
The driving force, nevertheless, helped them discover jobs at a manufacturing facility in Chennai on a weekly wage.
Round 2.45pm on September 23, one of many women by chance dialled the variety of a relative whereas attempting to name another person.
“The relative picked the decision and there was no response from the caller. He tipped us off and we have been capable of hint the caller’s location to Chennai,” the police officer mentioned.
On the identical day, police dispatched a staff and stored watch on the coin sales space from the place the decision had been made. Additionally they went door to door within the space with images of the lacking women the subsequent day. “A lady recognized two of the women, after which we have been capable of find the women working within the manufacturing facility pretending to be orphans,” the officer mentioned.
The trio are on the government-run women dwelling and can shortly be produced earlier than courtroom, police mentioned.