Schoolgirl duo in south Kashmir’s Pulwama fakes abduction to bunk classes
Srinagar, Apr 10: In an unusual turn of events, two schoolgirls from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir falsely claimed they were kidnapped in an attempt to skip school, according to police on Thursday.
In a statement, the police said that on April 7, the Pulwama police station received a written complaint from Bilal Ahmad Ganaie, son of Ghulam Nabi Ganaie and a resident of Ratnipora, Pulwama. The complaint alleged that an unknown driver of a vehicle bearing registration number JK01AB-2069 had forcibly taken his 10-year-old daughter and her classmate into the car around 9:30 a.m. while they were on their way to school and had tried to abduct them.
Upon this complaint, an FIR (91/2025) under section 137(2) BNS was registered at the Pulwama police station, and an investigation was launched. However, police found that the girls had made up the incident.
“During the course of the investigation, the statements of parents and minor girls were recorded before a court, where they stated that no one had kidnapped them and they went to Nadoo from Ratnipora by foot,” the statement said.
“CCTV footage of the area was also collected, which clearly indicated that neither any vehicle had forcibly picked them up nor were they kidnapped; they gave statements to avoid going to school, and the same was then corroborated by their parents,” it added.
Police cautioned parents to ensure that their wards are properly educated about the law. They should be properly advised that accusations like kidnapping and abduction are very serious crimes, and in such cases, the police are duty-bound to go by the statement of the complainant.
“Careless and casual attitudes of parents and children can have serious consequences against those falsely accused of a heinous crime they never committed,” the police said.
This is probably the first case of its kind in Kashmir, where parents and schoolgirls blindly accused an innocent car driver of having kidnapped them while the schoolgirl and her classmate had gone on a stroll after bunking their classes.
