A 15-year-old girl, who went missing from her residence in Aurangabad in Maharashtra, was found by the Delhi Police and reunited with her parents, said police on Sunday.
According to Amrutha Guguloth, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi district, on March 26, an information was received at Parliament Street police station that a minor girl, aged around 15 years, had come from Aurangabad, Maharashtra to Delhi's Gurudwara Bangla Sahib and did not have any ID proof and mobile number.
"Acting on the information, a police team was constituted to trace the family of the girl. The police team tried to extract information about family members of the girl, but she did not give any satisfactory reply," said the DCP. "During enquiry, it came to notice that an First Information Report (FIR) under section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at Cidco police station in Maharashtra.
Thereafter, the investigating officer of the case and the victim's family members were asked to visit Parliament Street police station for identification of the girl," said the DCP.
"After proper identification, the girl was handed over to her parents. The sincere and prompt action of Parliament Street police station resulted in the reunion of the victim girl with her family," the DCP added.