Details of missing children given to other states

Chennai

According to highly placed sources in CB-CID, officers have been sent to other states with the CD bearing photographs and other details of missing children. CB-CID teams have also dug out details of all children housed in different children’s homes across the states and collected photographs of 1,200 of them whose parentage is not known.

“These photographs and details were added to a different CD and have been handed over to other states  so that they can also check their missing children registry and see if any of them matches with the ones in our registry. If they find the match and give us the  details, these children can be reunited with their families,” a senior CB-CID official told DTNext.

Tamil Nadu police stepped up their efforts to trace the missing children following an NHRC notice to DGP, seeking details regarding the increasing number of missing children in the state. NHRC took up a suo motu case and issued notices following a report regarding increase in cases of missing children in Tamil Nadu in DTNext on March 23.

Due to lack of proper co-ordination between CBCID and the Chennai city police, obviously no details of recent abduction of children were shared between the two agencies. CB-CID is a nodal agency for protection of child rights in the state and has the power to review the performance of other police wings regarding investigation into cases related to children.

Though the involvement of an organised racket is almost confirmed in the abduction of a 10-monthold girl child from Walltax Road, no joint effort has been taken to investigate the role of a gang behind such abductions.