HC tells police to set up task force
Taking a serious view of the fact that the police has failed to trace several missing children in the capital and the NCR region, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the city police commissioner to constitute a task-force and to find out if some gangs were involved in their trafficking.
Issuing a slew of directions, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed that a senior police officer of the level of a DCP monitor all such cases.
The bench referred to a report filed by the Delhi Legal Services Authority, which said that around 500 kids in the age group of 2 to 4 years, have been abducted for trafficking purposes.
“Gangs are around the capital city for (getting) child labour, trafficking and the police is not carrying out proper investigation,” the court said.
The court, which was very concerned over the children going missing in huge numbers every year and the police investigations failing to trace them, said that a mechanism should be developed to ensure that the probe is transferred to the anti-kidnapping cell, if the police fails to recover the missing children.
The children, after being recovered by police, have to be produced before the member secretary of the DLSA or before its lawyers, along with their family members, the court said.
The court took note of striking off the names of missing children from their schools and directed the secretary, education, Delhi, to issue a circular against the practice, to ensure that the children continue their study after the recovery.
The bench was hearing a PIL after taking suo motu cognisance of a media report that children go missing and the police does not take appropriate action in tracing them.
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