Telangana: Six missing children reunited with families

Six children who were missing for several years were traced and reunited with their families following the efforts of the Telangana police.

Hyderabad: Six children who were missing for several years were traced and reunited with their families following the efforts of the Telangana police.

In the first case, a boy Mohd Khaleel Ghouri, who went missing at the age of 12 years from his house in Kanchanbagh in 2014 was tracked to Uttar Pradesh. The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), of the Women Safety Wing of Telangana police, traced the boy with the help of an Aadhaar card number.

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According to the police, Khaleel Ghouri left the house and went to Uttar Pradesh by a train in 2014, where the railway police caught him and lodged him at a children’s home. Since then the boy was staying there. In 2022, a man from Kanpur adopted Khaleel.

A special team of the Telangana police traced the boy with the help of a mobile phone number linked to his Aadhaar card. He was brought back to the city and handed over to his biological parents.

In another case, a girl who went missing from a children’s home in 2015 was traced after nine years. She was traced in Nizamabad and the police found that she was married to one Saiba Tarun, and now has two children.

In the other case, three children including two girls aged 10 years and a boy aged 8 years, who went missing from Chandrayangutta in 2017 were traced in Bengaluru by the Telangana police.

“Special teams are formed to trace long time missing persons. So far, 27 such long pending cases have been traced by us,” said Shikha Goel, Director General, Women Safety Wing, Telangana police. In 2024 so far 22,780 missing cases were reported in Telangana. Of the missing persons 19,191 were traced taking the success average to 84.25 per cent.