In what could be a scene from The Shawshank Redemption, 10 juvenile boys fled from the David Sassoon Industrial School in Mahim on Friday night. They snuck out with the help of a makeshift rope, constructed with the help of wires, cloth and bedspreads
In what could be a scene from The Shawshank Redemption, 10 juvenile boys fled from the David Sassoon Industrial School in Mahim on Friday night. They snuck out with the help of a makeshift rope, constructed with the help of wires, cloth and bedspreads.
Of the 10 boys who fled, four had come from the Yerwada juvenile home on July 23 while the others were from Mumbai. Officials from the remand home, which houses a total of 131 boys, filed a formal complaint with the Shivaji Park police on Saturday morning, and claimed that the boys had plotted the escape.
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An officer from the Shivaji Park police station said, "The boys usually stayed in groups of ten in each room and had been planning their escape by collecting ropes and cloth." A source from the remand home said that the boys were kept in the second floor of the home and they broke the iron rods of the window one by one over time.
"They jumped out of the window, and then scaled the walls of the remand home, with the help of a rope they had made," the source added. The remand home's boundary walls are about 18 feet high.
The four escapees who had been transferred from Yerwada have a history of breaking out of correctional homes. They had earlier fled from a home in Nashik. They were caught and shifted to Yerwada, before being sent to the school in Mahim.
"The remand home officials lodged a complaint saying that they found the boys missing during the night attendance. We have registered a missing complaint and have formed several teams to search for the boys," said Gangadhar Sonawane, senior police inspector of Shivaji Park police station.
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