Under operation Muskan operated by the State Police Headquarters in the month of January, 2444 girls have been rescued from State and others States.
During the period of one month, 175 girls from district Indore, 144 from Sagar, 115 from Dhar, 107 from Rewa and 102 girls from Chhatarpur were rescued. The recovery rate in Betul district is 89.1% and that of Ashoknagar is 79.1%.
A total of 3122 cases of missing girls are pending at the end of January. Last year also, 3337 kidnapped minor girls were rescued in three campaigns.
The effort of the Madhya Pradesh Police was also appreciated by the High Court Jabalpur on 22 January 2021, when a 19-year-old kidnapping was rescued by the police from district Murshidabad, West Bengal. During the same operation, the District Sehore Police revealed the case of minor kidnapping in 2013, which found that the missing 17-year-old minor girl was buried by her family members. The accused have been arrested in this case.
In this campaign, about 82% girls have been rescued from the state and 18 percent from outside the state. From other states girls which were rescued were from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Under this campaign, some girls from far-flung areas like 5 from Jammu and Kashmir, 3 from Karnataka, 8 from Telangana, 4 from Bengal, three from Daman Diu, 6 from Kerala, 1 from Assam and 141 girls from Punjab were rescued.
Posters were prepared by the Chief Minister specifically for the prevention of human trafficking under the Woman Awareness Campaign 'Samman'. The campaign's mascot 'Guddi' was also created with the intention of creating awareness regarding human traffickers who lure them of job and marriage.