The number of people missing in the city that are untraceable, have almost doubled from 2012 to 2013. As per a response to an RTI application filed by activist Chetan Kothari, those who remained untraced, have jumped from 2,086 in 2012 to 4,296 in 2013.
The figures provided by the city police show nearly a 30 % jump in the total number of people who went missing. In 2012, 9676 went missing and the figure in 2013 stood at 12,557.
The most number of people who went missing were in the teenage-youth (16-25yrs) age group or the middle age group (26-40yrs). The two categories alone comprised 70 % missing people. Females, however, seemed to be going missing in larger numbers in both the categories, as compared to the males. When 2,412 males went missing in 2013, the number of females was almost double at 4,299. Similarly, in 2012, the numbers stood at 1,501 and 3,048, respectively.
However, statistics indicated some positives too. Of the people gone missing, the number of them found dead later, was reducing on a yearly basis. From 105 in 2011 to 75 in 2012, it stood at 47 in 2013. However, the improvement did not reflect in the category of females in the teenage-youth (16-25) age group. The number of deaths in the category stood stagnant at five from 2011 to 2013.
Another slight improvement that reflected the statistics, was in the number of people traced after a drop in 2012. The figure of people traced that dropped from 8,451 in 2011 to 7,515 in 2012, it jumped to 8,212 in 2013.
"I was slightly surprised when I saw the figures. Police should try to register these cases earlier so that if they start the inquiries faster, the chances of tracing people is higher," said Kothari. When dna contacted the police commissioner, he was caught up in a meeting and hence could not comment.
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