Notice to Uttar Pradesh over 90 missing children

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the 90 children missing from the state’s Ghaziabad district in the last six months.

“We have asked the chief secretary and district authorities to respond in four weeks over 90 children who have gone missing between January 1 and July 1 this year,” said an NHRC official.

According to media reports, of the 251 children who went missing from Ghaziabad in 2011, 115 remain untraced.

“There may be several other instances in Ghaziabad where the police might not have registered the missing report in respect of the missing children,” said the official.

The NHRC has also asked the chief secretary to inform it whether guidelines on missing children issued by the commissi0on were followed.

The guidelines were issued Aug 6, 2007.