4 minors who escaped from remand home apprehended in Bengaluru for chain snatching

They collected CCTV footage and on July 24 traced the four minors to a place near Gangondanahalli Main Road. An autorickshaw and two two-wheelers were also found in their possession.

A police officer said the minors confessed to the crime and that valuables worth Rs 4 lakh were recovered from them. On July 25, the minors were produced before a Juvenile Justice Board, which sent them to the remand home in Madiwala.

Investigations revealed that the four were apprehended by the Byadarahalli police in a case of mobile snatching and sent to a remand home in Devanahalli on June 30. However, on July 9, they managed to break the lock of the back door and escaped from the remand home.

The police said that most of them had single parents doing menial jobs for survival and were school dropouts.

B Dayananda, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, said that action would be taken against their parents under section 75 (cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice Act.

“They have been served notices,” Dayananda said on Tuesday at a weekly press briefing. “Action on parents is due to them not properly taking care of their children and not looking after their growth and well-being.”