After that, they gave the direction that with the presumption of crime there will be a registration of a case within 24 hours if a child goes missing, said Sampurna Behura, Director (Legal), BBA.Īlso Read: 16-year-old From Bihar, Raped While Out To Fetch Water, Awaits Justice We took up this whole concept of missing children and we went to the Supreme Court (SC) and the SC bench took it very seriously and they created a special bench that heard the matter every week. Incidentally, BBA's legal intervention paved the way for a landmark Supreme Court judgment in 2013 which made registration of FIR mandatory in all cases of missing children. The very fact that our Bachpan Bachao wing has freed 10,000 kids in the last 15 months, indicates that the cases of child trafficking and kidnapping have increased multifold.Īlso Read: 14-Year-Old Repeatedly Raped By Cousin And Brother-In-Law, Threatened With Consequences If She Spoke Upįrom providing a platform to parents through demonstrations at the heart of the national capital to draw the government's attention to releasing the watershed ‘Missing Children of India' report, the Satyarthi Movement's Bachpan Bachao Andolan or BBA has been at the forefront of bringing about policy level changes and spearheading system interventions to help reunite missing children with their parents. This strongly suggests that there's a substantial increase. Talking to NDTV about the NCRB data and India's missing children, Rakesh Sengar, Executive Director (Programmes), Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation said,Īccording to the data from NCRB, fifty-nine thousand cases of missing children have been reported during the COVID-19 era. Which means over 4,938 children went missing every month in 2020 and over 1 lakh (1,08,234) children remain untraced as on date. As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, more than 50,000 (59,262) children went missing in 2020. There are hundreds and thousands of other distraught parents like them who are undergoing the same harrowing ordeal every single day. We asked police for help, even approached Chief Minister's office, we have tried asking for help from everyone.Īlso Read: Traffickers' Various Tricks While Transporting Children In Trains Till now we have not been able to locate her. Talking to NDTV about the loss of their daughter, Rajan Shah, Khushi's father said, The accused, who allegedly kidnapped her, has been arrested but there is no word on Khushi yet. Playing in a Saraswati Pooja pandal in front of her house, little Khushi suddenly went missing. It's been more than 7 months since Rajan Shah and his wife last saw their 5-year-old daughter Khushi (name changed), the joy of their lives.
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