Kasargod: Police have apprehended three youth on the charges of luring two girls and kidnapping them with an intention to involve them in flesh trade.
The two girls were on way to school near Kanhangad and Chervattur when Mungath Mubasheer, 26, Anish, 22, and Amal, 22, took the girls with them promising to take them to circus shows and then lodging them in the rented house of one Mubasheer at Velloor, near Payyanur.
A neighbouring woman of the girls who noticed them being taken in an autorickshaw, informed their father who tried to call the abductors who had called the girls on their mobile phone which they had left behind.
The abductors threatened the man but later left the girls at Neeleshwaram sensing danger.
The arrested youth have been remanded to two weeks of judicial custody.