Delhi Police Crime Branch and Cyber Cell rescued a 17-year-old boy after 14 months by tracking the IP address of his Facebook account. The boy had run away as his father used to beat him every now and then.
A senior police official said the boy identified as Keshav Kumar, has been missing since May 8, last year from his house in Khajoori Khas in the national Capital, was traced in Srinagar by the Cyber Cell.
A team of Cyber Cell of Crime Branch led by ACP NK Meena and Inspectors Sanjay Gade and Sandeep Malhotra, started working meticulously to trace the boy on the basis of his Facebook account.
“Sincere efforts were made to trace the user of Facebook account and its IP addresses from where it was being accessed and hard work of more than four months gave fruitful results. The IP addresses provided by the Facebook were found to be of different mobile numbers, which were used to access the Facebook account of missing boy. The call details and CAF of these mobile numbers were sought from concerned mobile operators. After thorough analysis, it was found that the Facebook account was being used from Dalal Mohalla in Srinagar,” said Joint CP, Crime, Ravindra Yadav.
On July 6, a joint team of Cyber Cell and Crime Branch raided at Dalal Mohalla and recovered the missing boy.
“The missing boy has been handed over to his parents. During probe, he said he had left the house because his father used to drink and beat him,” said the police official.