Two incidents on Tuesday in Tamil Nadu showed it is getting increasingly difficult to fathom teenage minds.
Two girls were lured to the city with the pouplar snack — bajji — and one left the city after a quarrel with her parents over a haircut.
Police rescued two 17-year-old girls from Tindivanam who were lured to the city with snacks by two youths from Chennai when they reached the Koyambedu bus stand early on Tuesday morning in their school uniform.
“It is hard to believe that Plus two students can be allured with snacks. However, in the case of the two girls from a village in Tindivanam, the promise of bajjis was enough,” said a police official.
The two youths from Chennai — a law college student and an employee of shop selling bags — both of whom were about 19 years old, had given the girls snacks and the two had travelled with them to the city without understanding the consequences,” said the official.
He said that one of the youths was a relative of one of the girls.
“As all of them were adolescents, we called their parents. The parents of all the four came to the station and took their children home saying that they will sort out the issue themselves,” the police said.
Girl objected hair cut, ran away from home
In the second incident, which was reported in Nolambur, the 13-year-old daughter of a defence official ran away from home after her parents insisted that she cut her hair. The girl, a student of Class VII, left home and boarded a train that took her to Vijayawada railway station.
“There she was not sure what to do. The girl who was fluent in English, Hindi and Tamil, approached the police at the railway station and told them that she wanted to go back to Chennai. The police called her parents, confirmed her version and brought her to Chennai,” police sources said.