How the minor children were disappearing in Ghaziabad came to the fore when a special drive by the local police helped them in tracing 13 of the children from New Delhi, Haridwar and one from Faridabad.
Interestingly, the local police did not gave exact figures of children went missing from the district but the recovery pointed towards magnitude of the problem and demanded that director general of police, Al Banerjee should intervened and take similar exercise across the State.
According to an official communiqué of the Ghaziabad police sent to DGP office, the local police took out a month long drive `Operation Smile’ during which special teams were formed just to trace out the children reported missing from the district.
During the drive, the cops recovered three children from Open Centre Home at Purana loha Pul, near Hanuman Temple in Old Delhi, one from Udyan Centre Home in Mayur Vihar in New Delhi, two form Old Delhi railway station, two from Haridwar district, one from Faridabad, one from Hanuman Temple in Old Delhi, one from Gurdwara in Old Delhi, one from Meena Bazar in Old Delhi and one Gazipur area of Delhi.
These children were reported missing from Vijaynagar, link Road, Modinagar and Kotwali police station area of Ghaziabad. All the children were handed over back to their family members.
Meanwhile, to ensure that all cases were registered, a test FIR exercise has been carried out in the State on direction of DGP Al Banerjee, on last Thursday.
ADG (law and order), Mukul Goel, disclosed that they received the report from all the zones except from lucknow and Varansi, and found that out of 64 attempts to lodge FIR, cops at 9 police stations took no cognizance while the other either get the case registered or at least probed the matter.
Goel said that in Allahabad Zone, the cops at Cantt police station in Allahabad, and Attara police station in Banda, refused to register a FIR. Similarly, in Meerut Zone, the cops of Balaini (Bagpat),
Mandi (Muzaffarnagar), and Daurala (Meerut) police stations had refused to took cognizance of the officers complaint who went to lodge test FIRs. In Agra Zone, the cops at Madrak police station in Aligarh, and in Gorakhpur Zone, the cops at Kaudiya police station in Gonda, refused to register FIR.
Mukul Goel said that they were waiting for report from lucknow and Varansi Zone also after which stern action will be initiated against all the policemen who refused to register Test FIRs. He claimed that such exercise would be continue in the future also, till they would not receive any complaint that FIRs were not registered by the cops.