Date:08/02/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/02/08/stories/2005020812520600.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Schoolboy's kidnap story a stunt to avoid exams

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, FEB. 7. The police today warned and let off a 14-year-old student of a leading school in K.K. Nagar here for giving a false complaint that four persons had kidnapped him from school this morning.

According to police, the boy from Kodambakkam came to Triplicane police station around 11 a.m. and complained that a four-member gang in a van abducted him from school. When the gang members realised that he was not the person they were looking for, they dropped him on Blackers Road off Anna Salai and sped away, he said.

When police asked him about the vehicle number, he said the vehicle carried a `For Registration' sticker. Further interrogation revealed that anxious about writing his examinations, the boy hired an autorickshaw and reached Nungambakkam, from where he took another autorickshaw to reach Blackers Road.

He confessed to the police that the kidnap story was false.

After warning him, the boy was handed over to his mother, police said.