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The Gujarat Police person traced 1,470 missing persons during a month-long statewide thrust ‘Operation Milap’, launched connected May 7 to reappraisal and analyse pending missing persons cases.
According to police, a full of 24,767 radical person been reported missing successful Gujarat since 2007. The cognition was aimed astatine locating missing individuals and reuniting them with their families.
Of the 1,470 persons traced during the operation, 852 were women, 342 were men, 42 were insignificant boys, and 234 were insignificant girls. Among each constabulary units, Surat City Police recorded the highest fig of recoveries, tracing 341 missing persons.
The cognition was undertaken arsenic portion of the Gujarat Police’s broader absorption connected women’s safety, extortion of children and susceptible persons, enactment against narcotics networks, recognition of amerciable Bangladeshi immigrants and issues concerning nationalist security, officials said.
“Although the peculiar thrust to hint missing persons has concluded, our efforts volition not halt here. Police officers person been instructed to proceed pursuing missing persons cases alongside their regular policing duties,” said G.S. Malik, Director General of Police, Gujarat.
He said tracing missing persons, peculiarly women and children, remains a precedence for the Gujarat constabulary arsenic portion of its efforts to support citizens and guarantee their information and well-being.
“The cognition was based connected some method and quality quality inputs and progressive a thorough reappraisal of aged lawsuit records on with caller field-level verification. Police teams examined integer records, societal media activity, transport hubs, and structure homes, portion besides revisiting complainants and witnesses to stitchery caller leads,” said Ajay Choudhary, Additional Director General of Police, CID Crime (Women Cell).
A elder constabulary serviceman said the cognition had besides helped place patterns down missing persons cases successful the State.
“Operation Milap has revealed important trends down missing persons cases successful Gujarat, with teen girls emerging arsenic the astir susceptible group. During the peculiar drive, constabulary traced a ample fig of missing children and women, including respective long-pending cases and recoveries from States specified arsenic Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand and West Bengal,” the serviceman said.
Police said investigation of the recovered cases pointed to relationship-related issues and household disputes arsenic among the superior reasons down disappearances.
“Analysis of recovered cases shows that romanticist relationships and elopement were the starring reasons down disappearances, peculiarly among girls aged 14 to 17 years. Family conflicts, including parental reprimand, acquisition setbacks and home disputes, were besides large contributing factors. Migration among labour families further analyzable tracing efforts, often resulting successful interstate movement,” the serviceman said.
As portion of the drive, constabulary reopened and reviewed long-pending cases, including those registered arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2007, resulting successful the tracing of respective missing persons whose whereabouts had remained chartless for years.
Police attributed the occurrence of Operation Milap to tract investigations, quality gathering, mobile telephone analysis, interstate coordination and household counselling. Officials said efforts to hint missing persons would proceed aft the decision of the peculiar drive.
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