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9,000 minor MP girls go missing in 20 months

6,022 minor boys too were reported missing during this period

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Minor girls trafficking has scourged Madhya Pradesh. Isolated recoveries of abducted or trafficked girls in Mandsaur, Mandla, Dindori or Balaghat districts in recent months don’t give a real picture of the enormity of the human trafficking.

But the number of missing girls put together from across the state since January 2010 to August 2011 is indeed alarming: over 9000. Of these missing girls, 4,000 are yet to be traced, police records said.

This is despite the state anti-trafficking cell constituted last year, following rescue of over 50 girls from the brothels of Banchda tribes along roads in Mandsaur.

“Out of the 57 girls rescued from the Banchhra, 24 were reported missing in police stations,” said GK Pathak, SP Mandsaur, who busted the flesh trade rackets. The other girls who were rescued were not reported missing as they were abducted at a very young age and are now grown ups and, therefore, it is difficult to trace them, Pathak said.

The anti-human trafficking cell has registered 46 cases of missing girls this year and rescued 85 minors.

“Of the rescued 85 girls, 75 were reported missing in various police stations. The remaining were brought by the traffickers by fooling their parents”, said Aruna Mohan Roy, IG, anti-trafficking cell.

During January 2010 to August 2011, 6022 boys too went missing and 1,937 of them are untraceable. However, the anti-trafficking cell’s main worry is missing girls.

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