Missing girls from Tanur will reach Kerala today; don't want to return home, requests for a job

MALAPPURAM: Two plus two students who went missing from Tanur have been found in Mumbai. The RPF team found them at Lonavala station while they were travelling on the Mumbai-Chennai Express train yesterday morning. The children, who were shifted to the Juvenile Board's care home in Pune, were handed over to the Tanur police. The group, which left on the Garib Express at 5.30 pm yesterday, will reach their home at 12 pm today. Counselling will be provided to the children and their parents afterwards.

The police got the tower location after a new SIM was inserted in the mobile phone at 9 pm on Thursday. The police, who realised that the location was in the vicinity of the Mumbai CST railway station, conducted a search with the help of Malayali Association workers in Mumbai. The railway police found the students when the train reached Lonavala at 1.45 am.

Meanwhile, the girls told voluntary social worker Sudhir in a phone conversation that they had problems at home and would not go home even if they returned to Kerala. They also asked him to arrange a job for them. They spoke to Sudhir before the police found them.

Meanwhile, the girls had reached a beauty parlour in Mumbai at 2 pm on Thursday. The girls told the beauty parlour owner that they had come to Mumbai for a friend's wedding. Malappuram District Police Chief R. Viswanath said that the young man, a native of Edavanna, who had accompanied them, had helped them with the journey.