Missing children: Rights activist comes calling to the city today

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Missing children: Rights activist comes calling to the city today
AS Reported in Express News Service Friday , May 16, 2008

Ludhiana, May 15 Sandhya Bajaj, a member of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, New Delhi, will meet the parents of about half a dozen missing children from the city. She will visit the city on Friday.
In an official communication, Bajaj has told a local resident Pawan Kumar, the father of a missing child, Gaurav (12) who went missing on October 28, 2007, that she will meet him and other people at the Circuit House.

Speaking to Newsline, Bajaj said, "I am meeting parents of six to seven such children, who are missing and have not been traced till date. On basis of this information, the commission will ask for an action taken report from the local police as the task of tracing these children lies with the police. We would also look into cases as who have been traced and how the police have been able to trace these children."

It is pertinent to mention here in an attempt to get his 12-year-old son traced, Kumar stumbled upon the data of the missing persons from the city. Using the Right To Information (RTI) Act, he found that out of 276 persons who got missing last year, only 46 were traced by the police.

Besides, the data procured by Kumar further stated that out of the 43 persons who went missing this year till February 29, only nine were traced. The data reflected that how poor police are in tracing the missing persons.

Not satisfied with the police working in this case, Kumar had approached the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.