The scare of kidnapping of school children has worried institutions across Goa prompting managements of various schools to issue advisories to parents and students. The Goa Police department too has sent communication to all police stations to intensify police patrolling in and around school and college areas. However the police officials have asked parents and students not to panic but to take necessary precautions in order to avoid any such incidents. Precautions like not letting their children wander alone, not to go with any other persons except their parents and not to take lift from any unknown vehicles. In what appears to be a fall out of the fear of kidnapping of children, an irate crowd on Tuesday reportedly thrashed a man after accusing him of attempting to kidnap a minor boy in Vasco before handing him to the police. After a medical check-up it was opined by the doctors that the man was mentally unstable. It seemed improper for the public to take law in their hands and beat up the person. They should have handed him to the cops initially.
