Ankola: Student spins kidnap yarn to escape PU exams!
Daijiworld Media Network - Ankola (DV)
Ankola, Mar 16: Students, especially those who suffer from what is called 'exam fever', are often known to come up with excuses to avoid writing exams. From headaches to stomach aches, excuses are aplenty. But the yarn spun by a student in Ankola definitely takes the cake.
A second PU student here decided to get creative in order to skip the crucial exams. The 'kidnap' plot he concocted, no less than a Bollywood movie, had created panic among the locals.
Chetan Ageira (17), a student of Government PU College, went missing two days ago. The news was that he was kidnapped by four masked persons while he walking on the Ankola highway on the way to the exam venue.
However, an investigation led by PSI B M Govinda revealed that the kidnap story was concocted by the student himself.
Chetan Ageira, said to be a talented student, had not prepared enough to write the PU exam, and hence to escape from exam and the subsequent blame, he claimed that he had missed the exam because of the four miscreants who abducted him. What's more, he even approached the police and demanded compensation for the harm he had suffered because of the miscreants!
The villagers along with gram panchayat president Rajendra came to the police station and filed a complaint seeking justice for the student.
Chetan had also spun his story so well that nobody suspected him. But he could not fool the police.
When ASI Govinda investigated, he found bus tickets in Chetan’s clothes indicating that the boy had travelled from Ankola towards Karwar on March 13 at around 9:30 am. But when the student was quizzed about this, he said that someone gave him the ticket while he was escaping from the kidnappers!
When the police enquired at his college, it came to light that the student had not taken his exam hall ticket to appear in the exam. During their investigation, the police also found that the boy had forged the signature of the college principal in his internal exams. Medical examination revealed that no chemical substance had been administered to him to render him unconscious.
He even went to the extent of wounding his hand with a blade and claiming that he was injured while escaping from the kidnappers.