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Barabanki, 23 September (HS). On Monday morning, there was a stir in the district after the news of miscreants travelling in a van trying to kidnap three school children. When the city police station came into action on the information and started searching the CCTV footage of the area in search of the miscreants, the entire story told by the children turned out to be false. After this, the police itself was surprised to hear what the children told during the police interrogation.
According to the police, the incident involved three children, two sisters and a boy from the neighbourhood, studying in class six and seven at Neelkanth Children Academy in Makhdoompur, Kotwali area of the city.
On Monday morning, much later after leaving home for school, these three called their family members and told them that the miscreants in the van had kidnapped them. As the gate of the van was not closed properly, they got a chance to escape and somehow they saved themselves by jumping out.
On hearing about the kidnapping, the parents of the children were shocked and rushed to the spot. On receiving the information, the police also reached the spot. After taking information about the incident from the children, when the police started their investigation and on the basis of the statements of the children, they checked the CCTV footage installed on the way, the whole story turned out to be the opposite.
Investigation revealed that the children were lying and they had not been kidnapped, in fact they did not want to go to school. They left home out of fear of their family members, but they had hidden their school bags in the house. After roaming around for a long time, out of fear of being scolded by their family members, they called their family members from a passerby's phone and told them a false story of their kidnapping.
Additional Superintendent of Police (South) Akhilesh Narayan Singh said that during interrogation, the children told that they got this idea by watching crime serials and movies on mobile and TV. The ASP appealed to all the parents to keep an eye on what their children are watching on TV and mobile screens and also keep warning them about what they should watch and what they should not.