Over 2,400 missing girls from MP rescued in Jan 2021
Madhya Pradesh Police rescued 2,444 minor girls last month under a campaign to trace missing and abducted girls, an official said on Wednesday. "Operation Muskan was carried out in January in which 2,444 missing and abducted girls were rescued from Madhya Pradesh and outside the state," the official from the MP Police headquarters in Bhopal said.
Most of them found in MP, others from various states
3,122 cases of missing and abducted girls were pending at the end of the last month, the official said. Those rescued included 175 minors from Indore, 144 from Sagar, 115 from Dhar, 107 from Rewa, and 102 girls from Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh. About 82 percent of the missing or abducted girls were found in MP and the remaining were traced to other states.
These are the following states from where they were rescued
141 girls were rescued from Punjab, eight from Telangana, six from Kerala, five from Jammu and Kashmir, four from West Bengal, three each from Karnataka and the Union Territory of Daman, and one from Assam, the official informed. Some of them were found in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The progress of proceedings in each case of kidnapping is reviewed every three days.
Authority letter issued to parents of abducted children
In a meeting last month, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan instructed the officials concerned to inform parents of the abducted children about the progress and status of the investigation into such cases. Chouhan had said parents of abducted children will get an Adhikar Patra (authority letter), containing information about the action taken by police toward tracing the child.
Around 3,000 kidnapped and missing girls rescued last year
Chouhan also said that various crimes against women have come down by 15 to 50 percent in MP since March 2020. Last year, a total of 3,337 kidnapped and missing minor girls were rescued in three different campaigns in the state, the police official said.
