A woman who had played a role in a drama of filing “woman missing” complaint to teach a lesson to her husband unexpectedly had to face a bitter anti-climax when she saw her photographs in the “missing woman” pamphlets pasted all around her locality.
The police said the woman in her thirties had frequently quarrelled with her husband, who works in an eatery. The man was accused of not taking her wife and two children away from the joint family to lead a nucleus family. On Saturday last, the woman went missing along with two children from her residence. The next day, her brother filed a complaint with the Tirunagar police about it.
After preliminary enquiry with him as to whether he checked with his relatives about the missing persons, the police filed the case.
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As part of the investigation, the police also printed pamphlets with the details and photographs of the woman and her two children and pasted them in all crowded places.
The husband, who seemed to be an innocent, complained that the woman’s relatives were trying to play a dirty game, Inspector of Police S. Sankar said.
When the police warned them of the consequences of ‘dirty game’, the very next day the woman appeared at the police station. However, she was shocked to see the posters.
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“She then started crying on seeing the posters, which she said, had put her to more shame,” a policeman said.
Little did they realise that the pamphlets would be put up all over the locality when they made a false complaint of woman missing.
At the end, the woman and her relatives themselves learnt a lesson, the police added.