TIRUR: One of the parents of the two girls, who went missing from Malappuram, thanked many including the Kerala Police for finding them. He said that he spoke to his daughter via a video call. He clarified that the children who left home in school uniforms had changed their clothes in between, and that the money they had in hand was obtained after selling the gold they were wearing and that they had gone on a tour. The two missing girls were found in Maharashtra after 36 hours.

'She wanted to be modern. She wanted to thread her eyebrows and straighten her hair. She also wanted to wear pants. The situation in which we grew up was not like that and so didn’t allow her to do all that. The first thing she did when she landed in Mumbai was to fulfill her wishes. Apart from such issues, there were no other problems at home. She reached a place where even we are afraid to travel alone. It is a great blessing that she will be brought back safely from there. We don't know much about the youth, who was there to help them. We only know what the police told us.

Two plus two students of Devadar Higher Secondary School in Tanur went missing on Wednesday afternoon. While the search was intensifying to find them, footage of the two going to a salon in Mumbai to get their hair cut had surfaced. The police had earlier collected CCTV footage of the girls arriving at Tirur railway station.

The two left homes in the name of exams. When the teacher contacted the parents after they failed to turn up for the exam, they came to know about it.

One of the two had earlier travelled alone in a train sulking for not allowing her to go for a tour from school.