No organised gang behind missing children: Delhi Police

NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Monday told the Delhi High Court that there is no organised gang, engaged in kidnapping children, operating in the capital.

“No organised gang in kidnapping children for any unlawful activity has so far come to notice in Delhi,” police said, in a compliance report filed in the court about the number of missing children still untraced.

The report also said till June 2009, a total of 920 children were still missing and most of the children left home on their own, citing social reasons.

“Some children lost their way, some left due to financial problems, some left due to extreme study pressure and some left for job,” it said.

The court will now hear the matter on July 20.

The court had last year taken up on its own the issue of missing children after taking note of media reports that 2,210 children had gone missing from the capital between June 2008 and January 2009.

“It is an alarming situation that in the last six months, more than 2,000 children have gone missing,” the bench had then observed.

The reports also alleged that the police showed an insensitive attitude towards the families of missing children who had to face demeaning remarks, abusive language and demand for money.

In April, the court had asked the Delhi Police to file a fresh report about the number of children still missing.