HC directs state to file affidavit on steps taken to trace missing children, women
7 months, 1 week ago

HC directs state to file affidavit on steps taken to trace missing children, women

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government is duty bound to trace missing women and children, said the Bombay high court on Thursday, and directed the state to file an affidavit on measures taken by it to deal with such cases. HT Image A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar was hearing a public interest litigation, filed by Shahaji Jagtap, a Sangli resident, seeking direction to the state police to trace more than one lakh women who went missing in the state between 2019 and 2021. The court also sought a reply from the Government Railway Police on measures taken to check human trafficking and suggestions from the Maharashtra State Commission for Women for curbing human trafficking. The court said there may be various causes of children and women going missing, but it is the duty of the state to trace them and protect them, and if necessary, give them safe custody.

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375,058 women, 90,113 girls went missing in India in 2021, MP & Maharashtra top the list: NCRB
1 year, 8 months ago

375,058 women, 90,113 girls went missing in India in 2021, MP & Maharashtra top the list: NCRB

Firstpost  

According to NCRB, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of cases of missing girls and women among all other States in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. Maharashtra government has also taken several steps for women’s safety such as the prevention of atrocities against women’s cells, Mahila Police Kaksha, Mahila Suraksha Samittee, Anti Human Trafficking Unit and Investigative …

383 girls and women missing from Mumbai in 3 months, show police data
1 year, 10 months ago

383 girls and women missing from Mumbai in 3 months, show police data

The Hindu  

Describing as “alarming” the latest data on missing girls and women in Maharashtra, the State Commission for Women has sought an investigation into the cases. From January 1 and March 31 this year, 3,594 girls and women in the age group of 16-35 went missing in Maharashtra, with 383 missing from Mumbai alone, the data showed. The department should carry …

Maharashtra women's commission seeks setting up of panel to find missing women
1 year, 10 months ago

Maharashtra women's commission seeks setting up of panel to find missing women

The Hindu  

Maharashtra State Commission for Woman Chairperson Rupali Chakankar has asked the State Home Department to set up a panel to find out women missing from the State and submit a report every fortnight on its progress. It is a serious matter that women and girls were going missing from the State, Ms. Chakankar said on May 15. She was speaking …

1228 kids went missing in 3 years from Telangana, only 440 were traced
2 years, 3 months ago

1228 kids went missing in 3 years from Telangana, only 440 were traced

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Centre told Parliament that 1,228 children had gone missing in Telangana from 2019 to 2021, of whom 440 had been traced. This is an abysmal low of around 36 per cent as against the national average of 89 per cent missing children traced across the country, the Union ministry of women and child development told the Lok Sabha. …

Ensure That Children Do Not Escape From Child Care Institutions: Karnataka High Court Seeks ATR From Govt
3 years ago

Ensure That Children Do Not Escape From Child Care Institutions: Karnataka High Court Seeks ATR From Govt

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the State government to place on record in two weeks, the effective steps that are being taken to ensure that children do not escape from the government run child care institutions. 141 Children Missing From Govt Owned Child Care Institutions: Karnataka High Court Directs State To Produce Investigation Report The plea states missing …

MP govt calls reduction in number of abandoned children ‘technical error’
3 years, 7 months ago

MP govt calls reduction in number of abandoned children ‘technical error’

Hindustan Times  

The Madhya Pradesh government has called a 32% reduction in its data of abandoned children during the second wave of Covid-19 “a technical error”, after emerging as the state with the highest number of such recorded cases. A National Commission for Child Rights Protection status report on orphans and abandoned children between April 2020 and June 2021, submitted to the …

Two Minor Girls Go Missing After Children Shifted to Another Shelter Home on Sexual Assault Complaints
3 years, 9 months ago

Two Minor Girls Go Missing After Children Shifted to Another Shelter Home on Sexual Assault Complaints

News 18  

Two more minor girls went missing after children from a shelter home in East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand, were shifted to another place late Friday evening by the administration after allegations of sexual assaults there, surfaced. Forty children, all minor barring two, were moved to Bal Kalyan Aashram, Gobarghausi in Jamshedpur after complaints of sexual assault and torture over a …

Maharashtra: 1,572 kids lost one or both parents due to Covid-19
3 years, 10 months ago

Maharashtra: 1,572 kids lost one or both parents due to Covid-19

India Today  

As many as 1,572 children in Maharashtra have lost either one or both their parents due to the coronavirus infection so far, sources said on Thursday. While 1,474 children lost one parent, 98 others lost both the parents during the pandemic, the sources in the state Women and Child Development Department said. The government had set up a 10-member task …

Data reveals grim situation of 'missing children' cases in West Bengal: Reports
4 years, 1 month ago

Data reveals grim situation of 'missing children' cases in West Bengal: Reports

Op India  

The State of West Bengal, ruled by the incumbent Trinamool Congress government, has witnessed more cases of missing children that any other State in the country. As per reports, the Minister of Women and Child Welfare, Smriti Irani had informed in the Lok Sabha that West Bengal topped the list of missing children in India consecutively from 2016 to 2018. …

How this Delhi Police woman constable traced 76 missing children from several states
4 years, 4 months ago

How this Delhi Police woman constable traced 76 missing children from several states

India TV News  

A woman Head constable has become the first Delhi Police officer to get out-of-turn promotion for tracing missing children under the incentive scheme announced by Delhi Police commissioner S.N. Constable Seema Dhaka of Police Station Samay Pur Badli, has traced 76 missing children and 56 of them are below the age of 14 years. In order to motivate the police …

Maharashtra records highest number of missing women: NCRB
5 years, 1 month ago

Maharashtra records highest number of missing women: NCRB

The Hindu  

The highest number of women and children who go missing in the country are from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh respectively, according to a study by the National Crime Records Bureau. The two States recorded the maximum number of cases of missing children and women among all other States in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. According to the report, the …

How many kids have gone missing?: Telangana High Court
5 years, 2 months ago

How many kids have gone missing?: Telangana High Court

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Concerned by the statistics and the response of the police to cases of missing children, the Telangana High Court on Monday directed the Director-General of Police to critically analyse the reasons for so many children going missing in the in the age group of 11 to 18 years. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice …

Child trafficking in India: Over two lakh children missing, but who's counting the forgotten ones?
6 years, 7 months ago

Child trafficking in India: Over two lakh children missing, but who's counting the forgotten ones?

Firstpost  

This is the concluding column in a three-part series on child trafficking in India. Justice Lokar was responding to information presented by amicus curiae Aparna Bhat on discrepancies between two government-commissioned surveys conducted a year apart, which indicated that over two lakh children residing in child care homes were now “missing”. A 2016-17 survey, commissioned by the Union Ministry of …

Bombay HC Imposes Unprecedented Rs. 60L On Maharashtra Govt For Failing To Find Missing Man For 13 Years [Read Order]
6 years, 8 months ago

Bombay HC Imposes Unprecedented Rs. 60L On Maharashtra Govt For Failing To Find Missing Man For 13 Years [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has directed the State of Maharashtra to deposit Rs.60 lakh after concluding that the state has failed in discharging its responsibility in finding Gangadhar Patil, a man missing for the last 13 years.A division bench of Justices TV Nalawade and KV Waldane at the Aurangabad bench was hearing a criminal writ petition filed by Patil’s wife.Case …

Bombay HC Imposes Unprecedented Rs. 60L On Maharashtra Govt For Failing To Find Missing Man For 13 Years [Read Order]
6 years, 8 months ago

Bombay HC Imposes Unprecedented Rs. 60L On Maharashtra Govt For Failing To Find Missing Man For 13 Years [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has directed the State of Maharashtra to deposit Rs.60 lakh after concluding that the state has failed in discharging its responsibility in finding Gangadhar Patil, a man missing for the last 13 years.A division bench of Justices TV Nalawade and KV Waldane at the Aurangabad bench was hearing a criminal writ petition filed by Patil’s wife.Case …

20,112 missing children reunited with families in Maharashtra under govt initiative, says state minister Ranjit Patil
6 years, 8 months ago

20,112 missing children reunited with families in Maharashtra under govt initiative, says state minister Ranjit Patil

Firstpost  

Minister of State for Home Ranjit Patil said 20,112 missing children were rescued and handed over to their families under “Operation Muskan”. Nagpur: More than 20,000 missing children were located and reunited with their families in Maharashtra under an initiative launched by the government, the Legislative Assembly was informed on Tuesday. The calling attention notice was moved by Sunil Prabhu …

India's children: 174 go missing every day, half untraced
6 years, 10 months ago

India's children: 174 go missing every day, half untraced

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: A deeply disturbing fact about India’s missing children is that while on an average 174 children go missing every day, half of them remain untraced. The National Crime Records Bureau report which was cited by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Parliament, more than one lakh children were reported to have gone missing till 2016, and 55,625 of …

4,700 Telangana minors went missing in 2016
7 years, 3 months ago

4,700 Telangana minors went missing in 2016

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The total number of minors went missing in 2016 in the state stands at 4,700, with 1,779 males and 2,921 females. Andhra Pradesh had 3,324 cases, while the neighbouring Tamil Nadu had 5,801 minors missing in the same period, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Of the 4,700 missing cases in the state, 1,021 children, including 377 males …

Aadhaar helped UIDAI locate 500 missing children; govt data shows 180 kids go missing every month
7 years, 4 months ago

Aadhaar helped UIDAI locate 500 missing children; govt data shows 180 kids go missing every month

Firstpost  

New Delhi: As many as 500 missing children have been traced over the past few months through Aadhaar, the CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, said on Friday. “Over the last few months, more than 500 missing children have been identified through Aadhaar,” he said addressing a session at the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017. Speaking …

Karnataka: Child traffickers got birth certificates done in adopted parents' name!
8 years, 3 months ago

Karnataka: Child traffickers got birth certificates done in adopted parents' name!

Deccan Chronicle  

Mysuru: The gang involved in kidnapping and selling children to childless couples was getting the birth certificates done directly in the name of couples who were buying these children, mentioning them as the biological parents. With this, gang members got visas and passports done easily for the children, said Mysuru Superintendent of Police Ravi D. Chennannanavar. The accused had got …

60,000 children going missing in India every year a big concern: CJI Thakur
8 years, 7 months ago

60,000 children going missing in India every year a big concern: CJI Thakur

Live Law  

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today assured Nobel Peace Laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan founder Kailash Satyarthi that despite the shortage of judges and other challenges faced, judiciary will continue to be committed, concerned and conscious towards children’s cause.“We should deliberate whether the problem in tackling the issue of missing and trafficked children, is a lack. Chief Justice …

60,000 children going missing in India every year a big concern: CJI Thakur
8 years, 7 months ago

60,000 children going missing in India every year a big concern: CJI Thakur

Live Law  

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today assured Nobel Peace Laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan founder Kailash Satyarthi that despite the shortage of judges and other challenges faced, judiciary will continue to be committed, concerned and conscious towards children’s cause.“We should deliberate whether the problem in tackling the issue of missing and trafficked children, is a lack. Chief Justice …

Govt wakes up, CM seeks report on missing children
8 years, 10 months ago

Govt wakes up, CM seeks report on missing children

Hindustan Times  

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked the Delhi Dialogue Commission to prepare a note on how the government can deal with the problem of missing children in the city. As per statistics, 22,000 children went missing from Delhi in the past three years. Sources said the CM was shocked by HT report that says in the past three years, more …

West Bengal has most cases of missing children
8 years, 10 months ago

West Bengal has most cases of missing children

The Hindu  

Rekha Munda was rescued from Faridabad in Haryana in April last year. Not a week goes by without police teams from West Bengal making trips to Delhi and adjoining areas to recover missing children. Data recently released by the Ministry of Home Affairs in response to questions in Lok Sabha earlier this month shows that West Bengal reported 14,671 cases …

Delhi: 22,000 children went missing in last 3 yrs, 9,000 still untraced
8 years, 10 months ago

Delhi: 22,000 children went missing in last 3 yrs, 9,000 still untraced

Hindustan Times  

Ram Singh, Mohammed Sabir, Haseena and Asma have many things in common. <span itemprop="name" content="Watch | Delhi’s missing children no longer a &#x27;minor&#x27; issue"></span><span itemprop="description" content="Ram Singh, Mohammed Sabir, Haseena and Asma have many things in common. "></span><span itemprop="duration" content="126"></span><span itemprop="thumbnail" content="http://cfvod.kaltura.com/p/1679921/sp/167992100/thumbnail/entry_id/0_1ttvbio3/version/100012/acv/142"></span><span itemprop="width" content="640"></span><span itemprop="height" content="362"></span> Every year, more than 7,000 children go missing and 1,500 of them remain untraced …

Exclusive: SC expresses distress over the non-constitution of Child Welfare Committee in Haryana to restore two missing girls from Jharkhand with their parents [Read Order]
9 years ago

Exclusive: SC expresses distress over the non-constitution of Child Welfare Committee in Haryana to restore two missing girls from Jharkhand with their parents [Read Order]

Live Law  

In an ongoing case, Vishanta & Others v Union of India the Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and NV Ramana, on 9 March, expressed its distress that Haryana has not fully constituted the Child Welfare Committee, as directed by it.Apart from UOI, Haryana and Jharkhand are respondents in this case.When promised by the counsel for Haryana that …

Exclusive: SC expresses distress over the non-constitution of Child Welfare Committee in Haryana to restore two missing girls from Jharkhand with their parents [Read Order]
9 years ago

Exclusive: SC expresses distress over the non-constitution of Child Welfare Committee in Haryana to restore two missing girls from Jharkhand with their parents [Read Order]

Live Law  

In an ongoing case, Vishanta & Others v Union of India the Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and NV Ramana, on 9 March, expressed its distress that Haryana has not fully constituted the Child Welfare Committee, as directed by it.Apart from UOI, Haryana and Jharkhand are respondents in this case.When promised by the counsel for Haryana that …

Despite a Special Squad, Missing-Children Cases Surge in Kerala
9 years, 6 months ago

Despite a Special Squad, Missing-Children Cases Surge in Kerala

The Quint  

The increasing number of missing children has evoked deep concern in Kerala. The report says that though the government has special squads to trace the missing children, the result gives no comfort. Most of these missing children were reported as being inmates of different child welfare homes in the state. A Childline coordinator Sergio Fabian told DC that the Child …

884 people go missing every month from Mumbai city - India TV News
9 years, 8 months ago

884 people go missing every month from Mumbai city - India TV News

India TV News  

Mumbai : As many as 884 people, many of them minor girls, went missing every month on an average from the metropolis during the last decade though a vast majority of them have been traced, according to figures released by Mumbai police. A detailed chart released by Missing Person Bureau, Crime Branch of CID Mumbai Police from January 2005 to …

The curious case of missing girls of Maharashtra, Gujarat I India TV News
9 years, 9 months ago

The curious case of missing girls of Maharashtra, Gujarat I India TV News

India TV News  

Sex ratio improves in India, not in Maharashtra, Gujarat Maharashtra's overall sex ratio declined from 920 to 919 over a decade although the all-India ratio improved from 933 to 943, according to census 2011. “The availability of genetic clinics in urban areas and awareness of literate people about usage of sex determination techniques could also be attributed to declining child …

The curious case of missing girls of Maharashtra, Gujarat I India TV News
9 years, 9 months ago

The curious case of missing girls of Maharashtra, Gujarat I India TV News

India TV News  

There is a shortfall of 73% and 55% in inspections of sonography centres in the western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, two of India's richest. The child sex-ratio in the states are among the lowest in India, especially in backward districts, such as Beed in Maharashtra's Marathwada region and Surat district in Gujarat. “The joint secretary, health and family welfare …

2,100 kids go missing in Delhi so far this year- India TV News
9 years, 10 months ago

2,100 kids go missing in Delhi so far this year- India TV News

India TV News  

New Delhi: More than 2,100 children have gone missing in the national capital till April 15 this year, continuing the disturbing trend of 20 kids disappearing from the city everyday for the last few years. According to Delhi Police data, 2,168 children have been reported missing in the city till April 15 this year, of which 1,212 were girls and …

SC orders Bihar and Chhattisgarh to trace missing children within a month; directs MP Chief Secretary to appear on November 20
10 years, 4 months ago

SC orders Bihar and Chhattisgarh to trace missing children within a month; directs MP Chief Secretary to appear on November 20

Live Law  

A Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice H.L. Sikri and Justice Arun Mishra directed the Bihar and Chhattisgarh Governments to trace the missing children in their States within a month. The Bench showed satisfaction with the efforts taken by the Bihar Government, which traced 169 missing children within a week of the Court’s orders. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, appearing …

2,317 Karachi kids went missing in 2012
12 years, 3 months ago

2,317 Karachi kids went missing in 2012

India TV News  

Islamabad, Jan 2: A staggering 2,317 children went missing from Pakistan's port city of Karachi in 2012, according to a civil society group working to uphold the rights of women and children. Data collected by the Roshni Helpline states it recorded about these children - both boys and girls - missing from the jurisdiction of 106 police stations in Karachi, …

Trailing vanishing children
12 years, 5 months ago

Trailing vanishing children

The Hindu  

Having struggled with high incidences of rapes, molestations, infant mortality, maternal mortality and malnutrition among others, Madhya Pradesh is now battling with the menace of human trafficking. They just registered a complaint, avoided FIRs and advised the parents to look around in order to find their children,” admits Aruna Mohan Rao, Additional Director General, Crime against Women branch, Madhya Pradesh …

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