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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) asked the Centre to ascertain whether determination is simply a nationwide web oregon State-specific radical down the incidents of children going missing from antithetic parts of the country.
A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagrathna and Ujjal Bhuyan emphasised the request to ascertain whether determination is simply a signifier down these incidents oregon if they are random ones, and asked the Centre to collate information from each States.
Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, said immoderate States person fixed their information connected missing children and that of prosecution, but astir a twelve states person not fixed their data.
She submitted that the investigation tin beryllium made lone aft the Union authorities gets implicit data.
"We privation to cognize whether determination is simply a nationwide web oregon state-specific radical down these incidents wherever children spell missing. Is it a signifier oregon conscionable a random incident?" the Bench told Ms. Bhati.
The apical tribunal suggested to Ms. Bhati that children who person been rescued should beryllium interviewed to ascertain who is liable for specified incidents. The Bench was besides captious of the States that person not furnished the data, and said it whitethorn walk harsh orders if needed.
Senior advocator Aparna Bhatt said the Centre has taken the inaugural and absorption beryllium issued to each States to furnish the data.
The Bench was proceeding a PIL filed by an NGO, ‘Guria Swayam Sevi Sansthan’, that highlighted the rising fig of children who stay untraced crossed respective States.
On December 9, the apical tribunal directed the Centre to furnish six years of nationwide information connected missing children and to name a dedicated serviceman successful the Union Home Ministry for ensuring effectual coordination with states and Union Territories successful compiling specified data.
The apical tribunal had earlier directed each States and Union Territories to depute dedicated nodal officers to oversee cases of missing children and to guarantee that specified details are promptly uploaded successful a portal tally by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
On November 18, past year, the apical tribunal voiced its interest implicit a quality study that claimed that a kid goes missing successful the state each 8 minutes, and described it arsenic a superior issue. It had said the adoption process successful the state is analyzable and asked the Centre to streamline the mechanism.
The apical tribunal remarked that arsenic the adoption process is rigorous, it is bound to beryllium flouted, and radical spell for amerciable means to person children. It had earlier asked the Centre to make a dedicated online portal nether the aegis of the Home Ministry to hint missing children and analyse specified cases.
The Bench had underlined the deficiency of coordination among constabulary authorities entrusted with the occupation of tracing missing children successful states and Union territories successful the country. It had said that the portal could person a dedicated serviceman from each State who could beryllium successful complaint of missing complaints, too disseminating information.
The NGO had moved the apical tribunal and highlighted unresolved cases of kidnapping oregon missing children, too the actions required to beryllium taken connected the ground of accusation disposable with the missing/found portal monitored by the Government of India.
The petition illustrated its statement with 5 cases registered successful Uttar Pradesh past twelvemonth successful which insignificant boys and girls were kidnapped and trafficked done a web of middlemen to states similar Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
