PATHANAMTHITTA: Three girls are missing from Pandalam. Three girls, residents of Balasramam, Pandalam, Pathanamthitta, have gone missing. The female students who went to school as usual in the morning did not return in the evening. The missing children are plus one and plus two students. Police started an investigation on the complaint of Balasramam authorities.

Meanwhile, the accused who was arrested in the case of trying to kidnap a three-year-old child who was playing in the backyard at Kanjikode Kizhakkethara yesterday was remanded. Salem Athur Amman Palayam Senthilkumar was produced in Palakkad First Class Judicial Magistrate Court and remanded.

On Saturday evening, Senthil Kumar kidnapped the migrant worker's child who was playing in the backyard by giving him chocolate. The auto driver and the locals who got suspicious while he was taking the child in the auto caught him and handed him over to the police. It is suspected that he was under the influence of alcohol and was trying to smuggle the child to Tamil Nadu. Walayar Inspector A Adamkhan said that an application will be made to get the accused in police custody to find out more information.