Finding missing children is our top priority says Delhi police
Finding missing children is our top priority says Delhi police
After receiving a rap from the Delhi High Court on Monday, the city police has finally pulled up its socks to find the children who have gone missing in the city. Taking up the cause of the more than 2,000 children who have
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Let's bring them home: Yudhvir Singh Dadwal addressing the media on Tuesday PIC/IMTIYAZ KHAN |
gone missing over the last six months, as first reported by
MiD DAY on February 26, the Delhi police commissioneru00a0 on Tuesday said that finding the kids was his department's top priority.
Commissioner of Police Yudhvir Singh Dadwal said, "The planned police helpline for missing children has been launched. Here, all records and complaints of untraceable children will be registered. The matter is important for us and it will take centre stage."
Taking suo motu cognizance of a
MiD DAY report on missing children published on February 26, the Delhi High Court had on Monday pulled up the police for sleeping over a large number of child disappearances.
Meanwhile, the police declared that they have found the six children who went missing from the New Sanjay Nagar colony of Anand Viharu00a0 last month.u00a0 "We traced them to a village 20 km away from Gorakhpur after one of them called up his family from a public telephone booth. We brought them to Delhi this morning," Dadwal said. "The six were together and two couples have got married," he said.
Missing children helpline: 23241210