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Police worry over increasing number of missing cases
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The increased number of cases of missing persons in Warangal district has become a cause of concern for the police as well as the common public.
Warangal: The increased number of cases of missing persons in Warangal district has become a cause of concern for the police as well as the common public.
With the two missing tribal girls of Parvathagiri found dead recently, the family members of the missing persons are getting panicked over the safety of their kin even as the police are asserting that they are making every effort to trace out the missing persons.
Strangely, majority of the missing cases registered are of girls and women between the age group of 14 to 40 years, a phenomenon incomprehensible by the police or the family members of missing persons.
According to the official records, a total of 486 cases were registered under Warangal Commissionerate and rural police limits in 2015. Of which more than 50 percent cases belong to missing girls and women, whose number is 378. Of the women and girls, 241 are aged between 14 to 40 years.
Under the Commissionerate limits, a total of 308 missing cases were booked while it is 178 under the rural police limits. The records say that during the past 10 years, more than 1,500 persons went missing and the numbers of missing cases are on the rise for the past couple of years.
The rural police were able to trace out 159 persons while the Commissionerate police found out 251 of the total missing persons. A total of 146 persons are yet to be traced out under the Commissionerate and rural police limits.
The police officials feel that disturbed situations at family-level have been driving many the people to abandon their homes. When it comes to girls’, lack of parental care and monitoring and increased freedom are said to be the reasons for their missing from the homes.
“Parents need to be extra careful in the case of girls who are naturally sensitive. Child marriages and forcible marriages are the reasons often found to be driving the girls and women to leave their homes,” said District Child Welfare Committee Chairperson K Anitha Reddy speaking to The Hans India here on Tuesday.
Rural Superintendent of Police Ambar Kihor Jha said that the delay in tracing out the missing persons is mainly caused due to improper information from the family members of the missing persons. ‘Giving right information and at right time could help us to act fast and trace out those missing”, he added.
Depending upon the gravity of the missing case, the police form special teams to find the whereabouts of the missing persons, he said adding ‘We always take the missing cases seriously’. The rural police were able to resolve about 75 percent of missing cases.
By: James Edwin
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