Newslaundry also reached out to the Circle Inspector (Kasargod) Abdul Rahim, who is investigating the case based on the mother’s complaint. He said that he could not disclose the details but asserted that there is no “ISIS angle to the case”. He added that the girl would give her statement to the district magistrate in the next few days (she is a minor) and that the boy she had been speaking to was not from Kerala and possibly not a Muslim. The officer told us that the boy’s friends and colleagues have told the police that he is Hindu, but that the police has to conduct a thorough investigation into the identity of the man.