Two minor girl inmates managed to escape from Snehalaya at Maloya, a shelter home for destitute and abandoned children, by scaling the wall in the wee hours of Friday. However, the inmates were later recovered from a relatives place in Sector 42.
Sources said that around 2.30 am the security guard spotted three inmates, aged around 16 years, scaling the boundary wall of the campus.
He raised an alarm and managed to the catch one of the inmates while the other two fled using the cover of darkness.The inmates climbed on the poles of the lights installed near the boundary wall and jumped on the wall. The light poles are around eight feet tall, which are tall enough to scale the wall.
The Snehalaya officials also informed local police station of Sector-39 about the incident which launched a hunt of the two.Gurmukh Singh, SHO, PS-39, said that the inmates went to relatives place at village Kajehri in Sector 52 who informed the police.
The SHO further said that the inmates were brought back from the relatives place. “We would record the statements of the girls and get their medical examination conducted”, SHO added.