‘Seeing her die would’ve been better’

Wednesday , 7 March '07

If she had taken ill before my eyes it would still have been okay. Even if she had died before my eyes it would not have hurt so much.

They go to work in metros, never return

Monday , 5 March '07

The Nithari killings have opened a can of worms. Every state is now looking for its missing children.

They go to work in metros, never return

Saturday , 3 March '07

In Jharkhand, many tribal girls who are hired as domestic help by agencies go missing

In UP, nobody ever kept records of missing kids

Friday , 2 March '07

After a High Court order, the government asked police stations to set up missing children cells

Here, hope uploaded from an Indore commercial complex

Sunday , 18 February '07

A computer in a nondescript room on the fifth floor of a commercial complex in Indore is an unlikely source of hope for anyone, leave aside distraught parents agonising over their missing children.

Assam police say their hands tied, NGOs make a difference

Saturday , 17 February '07

Assam's Director-General of Police R N Mathur admits that missing children are “a big problem in the state” but the department doesn’t have a dedicated squad to find them, being already neck-deep in dealing with insurgency and law & order.

Tamil Nadu is home to adoption rackets and child-labour gangs

Friday , 16 February '07

If Tamil Nadu police prove that the more than 350 adoptions that Malaysian Social Service processed during 2000 were of children kidnapped from the slums, this could be one of the biggest cases of child trafficking to reach the courts.

With Naxalites around, cops here have no time to track missing kids

Thursday , 15 February '07

Days before Holi in 2003, 5-year-old Anju went missing while playing with friends outside her home.

Low crime rate in hill state yet kids disappear

Wednesday , 14 February '07

Certain parts of Himachal Pradesh are perhaps as poor as any other in the country, but crime rate is low and there are never any reports of children being abandoned or sold by parents.

In Capital, every second missing person is a child

Tuesday , 13 February '07

Nithari wake-up call: Delhi cops open nine new cells, new circular alerts ranks, explains drill to locate kids

Kids go missing from homes, cops say no gangs here, they’ll return

Sunday , 11 February '07

Vishal Talreja went missing from outside his home in Indore's Sudamanagar on a Friday evening in 1998 when he was three-and-a-half years old.

The cook ‘confesses’ to murdering and sexually assaulting 16 Nithari children

Sunday , 11 February '07

Surendra Koli, the prime accused in the Nithari serial killing case, has confessed to murdering and sexually assaulting 16 of the 18 children whose deaths are being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation...

Rajasthan’s missing cell: Our job is to collect data, we do it every month

Friday , 9 February '07

Hope abandoned this single-room house in Chittorgarh years ago. Now Ratanlal Mali, his wife and three children do not expect to see Seema again, three years after the eldest child went missing.