MP: 26 girls go missing from children's facility; may have returned home, say cops
Bhopal, Jan 6: A case was registered in connection with the alleged disappearance of 26 girls from a children's home in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Saturday.
In a video message, Bhopal (Rural) Superintendent of Police Pramod Kumar Sinha said the probe so far has revealed the girls may have left Anchal Children's Home in Parwalia area after feeling homesick.
The news of the disappearance of the girls has also been circulating on social media.
"Some girls who get themselves registered at the facility return home due to various reasons, including finding the stay uninteresting. The investigation so far shows they have returned to their homes. This is being verified further," the SP said in his video message.
The police registered a First Information Report on Thursday on the complaint of district programme officer Ramgopal Yadav against one Anil Mathew for allegedly running the children's home illegally.
As per the complaint, 26 out of 68 girls at the facility, some 20 kilometres from the district headquarters, have gone missing, police said.
Mathew has been booked under relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015, the official said.
Police said Mathew has so far failed to provide a registration certificate for the facility he was running.
SP Sinha could not be contacted for further details, while complainant Yadav said he would call back later.
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J-K: Six held with drugs, assets worth Rs 73 lakh attached in Udhampur
Jammu (PTI): Six persons were taken into custody during an intensified anti-narcotics crackdown, with police recovering contraband substances and over Rs 23 lakh in Doda and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday.
In a parallel action, properties worth over Rs 73 lakh linked to drug peddlers were also attached in Udhampur district under relevant legal provisions, the police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Doda, Mohd Aslam said three persons, including a woman, were detained during a raid on a house at Dak Mohalla in the main town following recovery of 85 grams of suspected brown sugar and over Rs 23 lakh on Sunday evening.
He identified the woman as Zareena Begum, stating that she had been under police surveillance following inputs indicating her involvement in drug peddling.
Besides Zareena, officials said her daughter and son-in-law were also picked up by police during the raid.
“We have taken three individuals into custody. Their roles are being examined, and based on that, arrests will be made. We are continuing raids at other suspected locations,” Aslam said.
Three drug peddlers --Pardeep Singh of Hiranagar, Rahees Butt of Billawar and Ali Sen of Amritsar (Punjab) -- were arrested along with heroin at different places in Kathua district, a police spokesman said.
He said while 2.79 gm of heroin was seized from Singh, 2.66 gm were recovered Butt. Similarly, 303 gm of heroin was seized from Sen who was intercepted near Berrian-Pattan village while moving in a private car from Bhagthali to Maggar Khad on the Jammu-Pathankot highway.
All the three were booked under the NDPS Act and further investigations are on, the spokesman said.
In Udhampur, the spokesman said properties worth Rs 73 lakh were attached in two separate cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The attached properties included a newly constructed residential house, a car, a motorcycle and a mobile phone with a total value of Rs 65 Lakh, belonging to accused Saif Ali who was booked under the NDPS case in Majalta area early this year, he said.
In another action, movable property worth Rs 8 lakh comprising a car, belonging to accused Danish Butt of Doda has been attached under Section 68(F) NDPS Act in connection with an FIR registered at Rehambal police station, the spokesman said.
