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.