45% missing children untraceable

  • | Wednesday | 23rd May, 2018

We are taking help of NGOs as well as any input we can get from the family of the missing children and based on the inputs, teams are sent to trace the children. As per the data of CID, a total of 2,489 children of the state were reported missing between 2013 and May 2017 and 1,114 of them are still untraceable. RANCHI: The recovery of chopped pieces of a 16-year-old Jharkhand girl in Delhi has once again raised questions on the safety of children of the state. The statistics included both FIRs filed and diary entries made in connection with missing children.CID inspector general (IG) Arun Kumar Singh said, "We are putting in all the efforts to trace the remaining children. If action is taken against more traffickers from the list, the incidents of trafficking will likely reduce."

RANCHI: The recovery of chopped pieces of a 16-year-old Jharkhand girl in Delhi has once again raised questions on the safety of children of the state. As per the data of CID, a total of 2,489 children of the state were reported missing between 2013 and May 2017 and 1,114 of them are still untraceable. The statistics included both FIRs filed and diary entries made in connection with missing children.CID inspector general (IG) Arun Kumar Singh said, "We are putting in all the efforts to trace the remaining children. We are taking help of NGOs as well as any input we can get from the family of the missing children and based on the inputs, teams are sent to trace the children."However, social activists pointed out that many police stations made only diary entry of missing children without filing FIRs, delaying investigations.Ranchi-based social activist Baidnath Kumar said, "According to law, an FIR has to be registered immediately in case of missing children but here in Jharkhand many police stations just make an entry in the station diary as a result of which no investigating officer is appointed for the case and the children are not found."Out of the 24 districts, the state at present has anti-human trafficking units (AHTU) in only eight at Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla, Lohardaga, Simdega, Chaibasa, Palamu and Dumka districts.Rishi Kant, a social activist working against human trafficking, said, "With Jharkhand being a major source and transit state for human trafficking, there is a dire need of AHTU in every district. However, till the AHTUs are not formed, the district police should appoint their second officer as anti-human trafficking officer."The CID data also showed that between 2012 and 2016, a total of 224 traffickers were arrested by Jharkhand police.Meanwhile, Baidnath Kumar had submitted a list of 240 traffickers and placement agencies to CID Jharkhand in 2013 which included names of trafficking kingpins - Pannalal Mahato, Baba Bamdev, Gayatri Devi and others. Of them, Mahto, Bamdev and Devi were arrested in 2015.Kumar said, "Of the list I provided, only 23 traffickers have been arrested. If action is taken against more traffickers from the list, the incidents of trafficking will likely reduce."

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