Strange are the complaints the police receive. And it is not uncommon for the District Police Office (DPO) to receive SoS messages during nights and in the weekends.
They pester the DPO staff so much so that a police party is sent to the described scene of “crime.” Only on reaching the spot, the police realise that it is a false alarm raised by the drunk.
However, the Perungudi police received a peculiar complaint on Thursday. A woman lodged a complaint that her 42-year-old husband went missing after arriving at the Madurai airport from Dubai on Wednesday. The woman had stated that her husband, who was working as a driver in Kuwait, arrived in Madurai, via Colombo. The police ensured that the man’s name was in the passenger list of the Sri Lankan flight. Though the CCTV footage showed him leaving the airport, he had not reached his house at Teppakulam area, where his wife and two children live. However, only after registering the case did the police come to know about the man being safe. He had not gone missing, after all, but had been only to his native place in Pattukottai.
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The wife, the police said, was aware of her husband’s whereabouts. “In fact, her sister-in-law had called her up and informed that he was in Pattukottai. Still, the woman had lodged the complaint as she was irked over her husband not visiting his house first. However, the police said that the man had gone to Pattukottai after he was annoyed over not being received by his wife at the airport.
Irked by her husband, woman lodges man-missing complaint, writes S. Sundar