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The registration of 807 missing idiosyncratic cases crossed the nationalist superior successful the archetypal 15 days of January, according to Delhi Police data, sparked a governmental enactment connected Wednesday, with the Opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress accusing the BJP authorities of failing to guarantee the “safety and security” of people.
According to constabulary information updated arsenic of January 26, of the 807 missing people, 509 are women and 298 men. There has been a emergence successful the fig of missing idiosyncratic cases lodged successful Delhi implicit the past 5 years, constabulary information show.
The fig of untraceable cases has grown steadily from 3,239 successful 2020 to 4,841 successful 2022.
The fig further accrued to 6,882 by the extremity of 2023, and reached 8,477 and 9,087 successful 2024 and 2025 respectively, according to the data.
Of the 807 missing people, 509 are women and 298 men. There has been a emergence successful the fig of missing idiosyncratic cases lodged successful Delhi implicit the past 5 years, constabulary information show. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement
‘Higher reporting’
“The fig of cases reported truthful acold this twelvemonth is really little compared with erstwhile years,” Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastava said.
“The fig of cases reported successful Delhi is higher compared with different cities,” helium said, adding that the online strategy of lodging complaints has made it casual for radical to study missing idiosyncratic cases.
‘Not normal’
Hitting retired astatine the authorities successful a station connected X, erstwhile Chief Minister and AAP nationalist convener Arvind Kejriwal said, “In Delhi, 807 radical person gone missing successful conscionable 15 days and astir of them are women and children. These circumstances are not normal; they are highly frightening. The information of radical successful the nation’s superior has been near to the mercy of God. The BJP has implicit powerfulness astatine each level successful Delhi, yet wherefore has Delhi go truthful unsafe?”
Meanwhile, successful a missive to Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena, Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav sought the enactment of a task unit to “investigate the ample fig of cases of missing children”.
