Over 9,000 missing children traced: police

Chennai | Tuesday | 25th September, 2018

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“As on date, 45 cases of missing children were taken up for further investigation by the ACTU, and the investigation of 115 cases of missing children has culminated in the tracing of 61 missing children,” the SP said. The 9,194 children who were traced were handed over to their legal guardians, the SP said. more-inThe Tamil Nadu police on Monday informed the Madras High Court that 9,194 children, who went missing between 2016 and March 2018, had been traced by the regular police and the Anti-Child Trafficking Units (ACTU). However, there were 688 children — 456 girls and 232 boys — who were yet to be traced, G.

Nagajothi, Superintendent of Police, submitted in a status report before the court. According to the report, 43 anti child-trafficking units were formed on the instructions of the High Court in 2017..