More than 60,000 Children Go Missing In India Each Year

As per the official records 53, 000 children went missing in India in 2010, in 2011 the number increased to 59,000. It has been estimated that in every 8 minutes one child goes missing. The NGO activists claim that the biggest trouble with the increasing number and children remaining untraced is police inaction.

The capital, Delhi has the largest number of untraced children with 14 children estimated to go missing from the city each day. In most cases the police claim that children willingly run away, only occasional investigating chances of child sexual abuse and trafficking occur.

AR Chaurasia, an activist said, “The police shut the case saying that the child ran away and came back on his own. My question is what did the child do for four years? Someone must have employed him, why don't they probe it?" as reported by ibnlive.com

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) estimated that 60, 000 children go missing each year even with the fact that large states like Maharashtra, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh also Jharkhand and Punjab have not provided the missing children data.

The chief secretaries of all the states and Union territories have been asked by the Supreme Court to instruct all the police stations to register an FIR and start investigation of the reported missing children.

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