A last-minute intervention by a Sulur police inspector saved a Class 12 student from missing her crucial board exam.

Last week, a 37-year-old widow from Kallapalayam locked her house and left with her two children. When they couldn’t be found, a relative reported them missing to Sulur police. On Monday morning, the family returned and went to the station around 9:45 AM after learning about the complaint.

During questioning, Inspector J Lenin Appadurai inquired about the 17-year-old daughter’s schooling. Upon discovering she was supposed to be writing her board exam that very morning, he asked why she wasn’t there. The girl explained that she lacked her hall ticket, school uniform, and stationery, and the exam centre was five kilometers away.

Without hesitation, the inspector assigned a woman constable to rush the girl to her school in Peedampalli. En route, the constable purchased essential stationery for her. They arrived at 10:10 AM, just ten minutes past the exam’s start time.

Meanwhile, Inspector Appadurai contacted the school’s headmaster and convinced education officials to permit her to sit for the exam despite the missing hall ticket and uniform.

Speaking to TNIE, the inspector shared, “She had planned to take the supplementary exam in June, but I wasn’t sure if she would. I had to act.” After her test, the relieved student called him, promising she would pass.