Rising number of cases involving missing person cases in the city has jolted the city police into some action. After a recent review meeting at the police commissionerate, it has been decided to create a separate cell at every police station to focus on missing and absconding persons. More than 2,000 people who have been missing have remained untraced since 2007 . Police pegged the figure at 2,013 since 2007. As many as 6,600 people (2,914 men and 3,686 women) went missing since 2007. Nonetheless, the police have managed to trace 4,588 of them- 1,965 men and 2,623 women.
Officials said that while the process of tracing missing persons is continuous given that they may be traced later, they also say that most of the times, relatives do not tell the police if their missing family member is found. This, they said, made it the figures of untraced persons seem large.
Over the past few months, the city has had some shocks about missing persons . On September 17, 2012, a person lodged a complaint with Ambad police station that his 15-year-old daughter was missing. The girl could not be traced and it was suspected that a police constable was involved. The policeman lodged a complaint of kidnapping at the same police station.
The police constable - Guru Gangurde, son of sitting corporator Jyoti Gangurde, and attached to the police head quarters, is missing since then. The girl's father has alleged that the constable has kidnapped his daughter, according to the Ambad Police.
On September 11, another 17-year-old girl was reported missing from the Satpur industrial area. When her father approached the Gangapur Police Station to lodge a complaint, he accused his son-in-law of abducting his daughter as she was younger than the wife of the accused. Subsequently, the police laid a trap and picked them up from Trimbakeshwar area.
In August, a 32-year-old woman Sunanda Mule went missing and was found dead near Manmad two days later. District Superintendent of Police Pravin Padwal informed that there is a constant interaction between the rural and city police about sharing data of missing people as well as unidentified dead bodies.
Recently, the city police commissionerate has formed special cells at the police stations to focus on missing people in their respective jurisdiction.
A team comprising a police sub inspector and four others, are looking at the instances of missing persons. Police Inspector SS Kolhe of the Adgaon police station informed that recently that as per the guidelines by the commissioner and deputy commissioner of police, a team of five personnel at police stations would be focussing on missing and absconding people.
Every fortnight, a review meeting will be conducted at the police commissionerate to gauge the progress in cases of missing and absconding persons.
Senior officials said that earlier the work on such cases was not as focussed as it will be now after certain officers and personnel have been decided specifically for such cases.
Thursday 22 November 2012
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