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Patna
More than 15 children were reported missing every day in Bihar in the last three years, according to the latest data released by Bihar Police on Tuesday. Bihar Police and Railway Police registered missing complaints of 16,559 children in the last three years. What is shocking is that 7,219 children were either returned home or traced by state police while 55 percent (9,340) are still missing.
In the year 2021, 6,395 children were missing from their homes, and FIRs were registered in different police stations while only 2,838 children were traced by local police or returned home. The remaining 3,557 children are still reported missing.
In 2020, missing complaints of 2,867 children were registered in the different police stations and Railway Police while only 1,193 returned home or were rescued by the state police.
In 2019, the number of missing children was the highest with state police registering 7,297 complaints in different police stations while only 3,188 children were rescued or reunited with their families. The remaining 4,109 children are still missing.
The majority of the children missing were from the state capital Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Motihari, Vaishali, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Gopalganj, and Rohtas districts with an average of 200 children missing every year. The Patna Police had registered missing complaints of 830 children in 2021, 360 children in 2019, and 870 the previous year. The recovery percentage of children was less than 50 percent in Patna.
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