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Missing kids anger SC

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published Published on Nov 1, 2014   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2014
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Supreme Court today castigated the governments of Chhattisgarh and Bihar for providing inadequate and inaccurate data on missing children and for not adhering to its order on mandatory FIRs.

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justices A.K. Sikri and Arun Misra, which heard representatives of both states, asked them to file fresh affidavits detailing the number of children rescued and the number of FIRs filed while hearing a PIL filed by NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) which quoted National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data to say that 17,469 children went missing between 2008 and 2010 but so far only 20,000 FIRs had been registered by police.

Chhattisgarh government made some startling revelations today in court, but the bench wasn't impressed.

It said hundreds of children were being illegally transported out of the state's under-developed Naxalite-affected district of Bastar and other tribal areas by private placement agencies for being employed in domestic households across the country.

The agencies were taking advantage of the poverty in these areas and exploiting the vulnerability of the children for trafficking, it said.

The state told the apex court that out of 9,428 missing children, between January 2011 and December 2013, it had managed to trace 1,204 children.

However, the bench pointed out there was a glaring difference between the figures submitted by the state in the Supreme Court and in Parliament - the Rajya Sabha was recently told that number of untraced children for the same period was over 4,000.

"We are not accepting the figure given by you. You are either misleading Parliament or have filed a false affidavit... Both of your officers will be in trouble. Tell your officers (chief secretary and DGP) they are not going to take chances with us," Justice Dattu told senior counsel Ravindra Srivastava appearing for the Chhattisgarh government.

Today, the chief secretaries and DGPs of both the states were also present in court after summons were issued to them at the last hearing.

Srivastava told the court investigations had so far revealed that the children were trafficked from the state by placement agencies for being employed as domestic labourers in the country, or in certain cases sent to the southern states to work as bonded labourers.

He said the state had recently enacted a stringent legislation to check the activities of placement agencies, though he did not elaborate.

The bench asked the state to file a fresh affidavit with the actual number of missing children and adjourned the matter for over a week.

The court was also not satisfied with the details filed by Bihar and asked it to file a fresh affidavit.

Solicitor-general Ranjit Kumar, appearing for Bihar, said 2,814 children were reported missing between January 2013 and September 2014, of which 633 could not be recovered, while the remaining had been traced.

"Why don't you register FIRs in spite, of a directive from this court... parents are suffering because of your inaction. In the case of missing children, the moment a complaint is lodged an FIR must be registered," the judge said.

"After going through the report we are not satisfied. If you don't give a proper answer, we will again ask them (chief secretary and DGP) to appear," he warned.

At the last hearing, the apex court said it would start summoning chief secretaries/DGPs of other states, too, in a phased manner to know about the compliance of its judgment of January 17, 2013, wherein it had made it mandatory for all states/UTs to immediately register an FIR on any complaint of missing children.

But none of the states had filed proper compliance reports on the directive so far.


The Telegraph, 31 October, 2014, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141031/jsp/frontpage/story_18983671.jsp#.VFPpTVfbcrY


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