Missing Tanur girls brought back home; will undergo counselling

MALAPPURAM: The police reached Tirur railway station with the two girls who went missing from Tanur. They arrived at around noon on the Garib Rath Express. The children will be produced before the magistrate, and their confidential statements will be recorded. After counselling, the two will be sent home with their parents.

Earlier, Rahim Aslam, who helped the girls flee the state, was taken into custody by the police. Rahim, who returned from Mumbai, was taken into custody by the police from Tirur. Edavanna native Rahim is a mutual friend of the girls. Rahim’s relatives said that he travelled to Mumbai following the request of one of the girls. Rahim met the girls through Instagram.

The RPF team found the children at Lonavala station on the Mumbai-Chennai Express train this morning. The children, who were shifted to the Juvenile Board's care home in Pune, were handed over to the Tanur police.

The police received the tower location after a new SIM was inserted into the mobile phone at 9 pm on Thursday. The police, who realized that the location was near Mumbai CST railway station, searched with the help of Malayali Association activists in Mumbai.