After reports circulated on social media of children getting kidnapped from various parts of the metropolis, the Mumbai police on Monday, September 19, clarified stating that those were fake news.
The city police also urged people to not believe rumours that are spread on social networking sites regarding child abduction messages.
Police also stressed that members of public school teachers, principals and parents should not believe in such rumours as Mumbai is safe and no such incidents of kidnapping have taken place in anywhere in the city.
For those unversed, since the past week, people, essentially parents, have been receiving messages including letters and voice notes on their social media applications like WhatsApp and Facebook which says that children in several areas in Mumbai are being kidnapped from school and residential building premises by random men.
Police said rumours have been spread through social media that kids have been kidnapped in Kurla, Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Kanjurmarg, Ghatkopar, Andheri, Jogeshwari and Pant Nagar.
According to the police, they have visited and checked all the details and locations mentioned in the messages that are going viral on social media.
Subsequently, the police have even checked closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage in all these places but they have not found anything that's being mentioned in the fake chain of messages.
The cyber wing of the Mumbai police has already started a probe to find the origin of the message and they are hopeful that the culprit will be nabbed soon.
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