Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has directed the police to lodge a case of kidnapping in instances of missing children below 14 years.
"The Home Minister has directed that instead of filing the case of missing children below 14 years in police register, an offence of kidnap be lodged," a spokesperson for the minister said in a statement here.
Patil has directed that a circular in this regard be issued to police stations, the statement said.
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09:58 AM, May 11, 2013
Mumbai: In a landmark decision, all children below 14 years of age who are reported missing shall be treated as "kidnapped" and the matter investigated accordingly, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said in Mumbai on Friday. "Henceforth, any child below the age of 14 shall be directly treated as kidnapped, the case will be lodged accordingly and investigations shall be taken up with seriousness," Patil said. The decision follows a...
04:56 AM, May 11, 2013
Cleveland: Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up and held in a home just south of downtown before being found on Monday, and three brothers were arrested, police said. One of the women frantically told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come...
10:59 AM, May 07, 2013
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09:37 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Providence: A body pulled from waters off a Providence park was that of a 22-year-old Brown University student missing since last month, the Rhode Island medical examiner's office said on Thursday. Sunil Tripathi was identified through a forensic dental exam, but a cause of death has not been determined, said Dara Chadwick, a spokeswoman for the state health department. Tripathi's family, of Bryn Mawr, Pa, said it was overcome with...
09:59 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Boston: Police in Rhode Island pulled a man's body from the Providence River and authorities said it is "very possible" it is that of Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who has been missing since mid-March. The body was recovered on Tuesday night behind the Wyndham Garden Providence Hotel at around 6 pm. The coach of Brown's rowing team, which practices in that area, saw the body floating in the water and...
06:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since mid-March, was on Friday wrongly identified on social media websites as one of the two suspects responsible for the Boston Marathon terror attack. The social media and part of the mainstream media was abuzz with rumors that 22-year-old Sunil, who went missing on March 16 and they have still not been able to find him, was the "possible suspect" in...
11:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: A police officer who went missing on Saturday was found trapped in a lift, which went out of service, for over 40 hours at his office building in south Mumbai. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in a weak and delirious state. Inspector Suresh Sonawane (46), an officer with Mumbai Police's Missing Persons Bureau, was found in the lift on Monday when technicians opened it for repairs at...
05:02 PM, Apr 16, 2013
The FBI has joined a search for 22-year-old Indian-American Sunil Tripathi, an undergraduate Brown University student who went missing on March 16. The police of Providence, Rhode Island, has launched a massive search operation to find Tripathi, while his friends have not only been doing their own search, putting up posters across the city, but also have launched a Facebook page to find him. ...
12:00 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Around 75,000 children have gone missing in the last three years in the country and are still untraced, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Of the about 2.36 lakh children who went missing in the last three years, 1,61,800 have been traced, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar said during the Question Hour. ...
04:20 PM, Mar 06, 2013
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10:55 PM, Mar 05, 2013
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06:59 PM, Feb 12, 2013
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10:32 PM, Feb 09, 2013
The Supreme Court has criticised the Centre and several state governments for their failure to file status report on the issue of missing children. The apex court has also come down heavily on the Chief Secretaries of Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu for their failure to personally appear in the matter and asked them to explain the status of missing children in their states on February 19. ...
12:30 PM, Feb 05, 2013
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08:56 AM, Feb 04, 2013
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07:33 AM, Jan 31, 2013
The father of Indian student Souvik Pal, who was found dead in Manchester in mysterious circumstances after going missing on the New Year eve, will be leaving for Bangalore with his body on Wednesday. The 19-year-old was found dead in a canal in Manchester on January 22 after he went missing from a night club on new year's eve. ...
07:40 AM, Jan 30, 2013
The father of Indian student Souvik Pal, who was found dead in United Kingdom's Manchester city, under mysterious circumstances after going missing on the New Year evening, will be leaving for Bangalore with his son's body on Wednesday. 19-year-old Souvik, a student of Manchester Metropolitan University, had gone missing after a party in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and his body was discovered by police in a canal last week. ...
06:22 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The family of Indian student Souvik Pal, whose body was found in a canal near Manchester United Club's football ground in London on January 24, asked the government to prevail on Britain to expedite handing over their son's body and bear the cost of flying it back to India. ...
12:21 PM, Jan 24, 2013
