The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : All for better facilities Search on for missing juvenile home inmates

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

All for better facilities Search on for missing juvenile home inmates

Staff Reporter

Police have found two more boys; 38 are still at large

UP IN ARMS: Working children protesting on Mahatma Gandhi Road in Bangalore on Tuesday demanding judicial inquiry into the escape of children from the observation home for boys. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: The police on Tuesday found two boys who were among those who escaped from the Observation Home in Madiwala on Sunday afternoon.

The police have so far brought back eight boys to the home, while the remaining 38 are still at large.

The police said one boy was found in Yelahanka and the other in Kempegowda Bus Station.

The police had earlier searched the houses of the boys and found that they had not gone there, a senior police official told The Hindu here on Tuesday.

Besides the special teams constituted to trace the boys, the jurisdictional police who had earlier arrested the boys had also been drafted for the work, the official said.

Search had been carried out at RMC Yard, Peenya industrial area, bus stations and railway stations in the city, he said.

Meanwhile, official sources said that the boys had escaped from the observation home as they were apparently frustrated over the delay in getting bail.

After they were remanded in the home, the boys were hoping that they would be released on bail within two weeks, they said.

But since most of them had been arrested in connection with crimes such as murder, dacoity and rape, they were unable to get immediate bail. Such boys were suspected to have masterminded the escape, the sources said.

In December 2004, Santosh (14) committed suicide by hanging himself at the observation home. The Nandini Layout police had arrested him on charges of stealing manhole covers.

Although he was to be released in a few days, an official allegedly told him that he would be lodged there for six months. Following the death, Madivala residents staged a demonstration in front of the observation home alleging torture by officials had forced the boy to commit suicide.

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