Click to play videoNew Delhi: Geeta and her husband Babu Lal have only few numbers of photographs to remember their children. It has been five years since their three daughters went missing and till date there is no sign of them.
Geeta breaks down at the slightest mention of them. These years have been a struggle for her with no one to help even an FIR was lodged only a year after the children went missing.
“I don’t know who has taken my daughters away. I am poor that is why no one wants to help us,” says the mother of three missing girls Geeta.
More than 100 children have gone missing from East Delhi last year.
In this colony, which lies not too far away from Nithari, 20 children have gone missing since 2002.
The most recent case is that of six teenagers who went missing on February 10 and were later traced to Gorakhpur.
The residents are scared to even send their children out to play. The area they say is a favoured spot for several criminals and there are at least 15 known offenders staying here.
While residents have no clue about how their children went missing, police officials say that there is no gang operating in the area and there is no similarity in the modus operandi either.
“We don’t think any gang or mafia is involved in this. It is definitely not a case of organized crime,” says Delhi Police Commissioner.
While the police claim that in some cases, the teenagers who went missing, had eloped with lovers, many of the children who went missing are too young to have simply run away by themselves.
Though the police have promised to setup a helpline to deal with complaints of missing children, a simple call may simply not be enough.
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