In two years, Delhi saw 13000 kids go missing
In just two years, more than
13,000 children went missing from their homes in Delhi while police
traced 9,065 children in the same period and ensured their return to
their families, the Supreme Court has been informed. From last year
till September 30 this year, Delhi Police registered 11,296 missing
children FIRs. In 2013, over 7,200 children went missing of which the
police traced 5,458. Till September 30 this year, over 5,500 children
went missing and the police traced 3,607 of them.
On a petition by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s NGO ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ alleging that state administration and police were indifferent towards complaints of missing children lodged by parents, the SC had taken a tough stand against states which had failed to file affidavits detailing the steps they had taken to trace missing children. It has decided to summon the chief secretary and DGP of noncompliant states. The government said that in compliance with an earlier directive of the apex court, Delhi Police has two sub-inspectors in each of the 181 police stations in Delhi designated as juvenile welfare officers.
“These police officers are specially trained and instructed under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and are available round the clock in shifts in the police stations,” it said. The police said it has built a network of seven NGOs across Delhi which works for re-integration of missing children who have been traced. “Every recovered child is photographed and their photographs are uploaded on the official website. Delhi Police has developed a web-based computer application called Zipnet (zonal integrated police network) to maintain and share real time information of missing persons,” it said. “Zipnet is connected to the national web portal which holds the database of missing and recovered children who have been found abandoned and their parents guardians are not traceable,” it said.
Delhi Police said it did the initial investigation in case a child goes missing. But if the child remained untraceable for four months, the case was handed over to anti-human trafficking units in Delhi which submit periodic status reports to the legal services authority concerned every three months. The police said the government has set up 21 shelters for children in need of care and protection.
On a petition by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s NGO ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ alleging that state administration and police were indifferent towards complaints of missing children lodged by parents, the SC had taken a tough stand against states which had failed to file affidavits detailing the steps they had taken to trace missing children. It has decided to summon the chief secretary and DGP of noncompliant states. The government said that in compliance with an earlier directive of the apex court, Delhi Police has two sub-inspectors in each of the 181 police stations in Delhi designated as juvenile welfare officers.
“These police officers are specially trained and instructed under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and are available round the clock in shifts in the police stations,” it said. The police said it has built a network of seven NGOs across Delhi which works for re-integration of missing children who have been traced. “Every recovered child is photographed and their photographs are uploaded on the official website. Delhi Police has developed a web-based computer application called Zipnet (zonal integrated police network) to maintain and share real time information of missing persons,” it said. “Zipnet is connected to the national web portal which holds the database of missing and recovered children who have been found abandoned and their parents guardians are not traceable,” it said.
Delhi Police said it did the initial investigation in case a child goes missing. But if the child remained untraceable for four months, the case was handed over to anti-human trafficking units in Delhi which submit periodic status reports to the legal services authority concerned every three months. The police said the government has set up 21 shelters for children in need of care and protection.
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