How 3 Manipur Girls With A Plan To Skip School Put Cops On High Alert

The girls from Nambol town skipped school today. Scared that this may invite a scolding, the girls claimed that they were among students kidnapped by masked men

Three schoolgirls looking to escape punishment for bunking classes put the Manipur administration on alert today after cooking up a story about how three people had kidnapped 20 school students.

The girls from Nambol town on the outskirts of state capital Imphal had skipped school today. Scared that this may invite a scolding, the girls claimed that they were among a group of 20 students kidnapped by masked men on their way to school, police sources have said. 

The girls, the sources said, told cops that the kidnappers offered to take them for a picnic and asked them to get into a van. The two kidnappers, they said, were wearing masks. The girls said they became suspicious and jumped out of the moving vehicle shortly after they were picked up, the sources said.