Two child kidnapping incidents in a week shake parents

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Abductions rock Tamil Nadu

While Tamil Nadu was reeling under the shock of the incident where two siblings were abducted — one of whom was raped and later killed — another incident of abduction of a Chennai schoolboy came to light. Although in the second case the boy was released after his family paid the ransom, the two incidents have changed the lives of school-going children. The schools have been instructed to be more vigilant.

In Coimbatore, on October 29, 10-year-old school girl Muskan Jain and her seven-year-old brother Hrithik Jain were reported missing. They were children of a textile merchant. The children were waiting for their van to school when Mohana Krishnan came in another vehicle and told them that he was their substitute driver for the day since the regular driver P Renjith Kumar was not on duty. The children got in. Two days later, their bodies were fished out of the Tirumurthy Dam, 77 km from Coimbatore. It was found during the postmortem that the girl was raped before she was killed.Mohana was shot dead by the police in an encounter early on November 9 as he tried to flee from the police custody after snatching a sub-inspector's revolver.

Just as this gruesome incident ended in Coimbatore, another incident of abduction was reported from Chennai. Keerthivasan, a class nine student of a private school was abducted for ransom. His father Ramesh is a businessman. When Keerthivasan boarded the car that had come to take him home from the school, two persons approached and attacked the driver. Then they took away the car along with the boy. As the incident was reported to the police, a big hunt was launched.

Meanwhile, the call for ransom came. It was negotiated to one crore. The money was taken and the boy was released. “We did not like to take a risk with the boy's life. We did not know the exact strength of the abductors. So, though we had enough strength to launch a massive search operation in the area where they were hiding, we played a waiting game” said T Rajendran, commissioner of police, Chennai city.

The schools and parents have been instructed to be more vigilant about the drivers who they employ to drop their wards to schools. “We have instructed the schools to pick up the students by school buses. If a student does not turn up, schools should send message to their parents immediately. And more importantly, we have told the schools to allow the buses inside the school premises to drop the students instead of dropping or picking up them up outside,”says Sylendra Babu while speaking to TSI. “Parents should get their students admitted to the schools near their homes. Preferably, they should drop their children to the school themselves,” adds Babu.

“Impart life skills like swimming and running to children,” stresses C Sylendra Babu, commissioner of police, Coimbatore. Perhaps the students who were abducted and pushed into a canal, could have survived had they known swimming.

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