Thanks to the efforts of the Telangana State Police, a boy who went missing from Mysore in Karnataka in 2017 and was staying at a child care institution in Nalgonda was reunited with his family.
During Operation Smile-IX in January, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Nalgonda came across a boy who had been staying at a child care institution for the previous six years. The police team traced the family and handed over the boy after verifying his details with a nearby Aadhaar centre and correlating them with the details of his parent in the Aadhaar enrollment.
In another case, a girl who went missing from Nampally in the city was found and returned to her family.
A 15-year-old girl who left an orphanage home was also traced and handed over to the Falaknuma located orphanage. Similarly, a police team tracked down and returned a 16-year-old who had left home without informing his parents in Parkal, Warangal.
For the Operation Smile-IX conducted in the State in January, police teams (one SI and four constables including one women officer), were formed in each sub-division comprising 753 police personnel, and coordinated with the Women Development and Child Welfare Department, Labour, Health, Child Welfare Committees (CWC), District Child Protection Units and NGOs.
Operation Smile:
- Children rescued – 2,814 (Boys – 2,421, Girls- 393)
- Children restored to parents/ guardians – 2,467 (Boys–2,163, Girls-304)
- Children admitted in rescue homes –347 (Boys–258, Girls -89)
- Street children rescued – 161 (Boys-142, Girls-19)
- Children rescued from Child /Bonded Labour -1,401 (Boys-1,289, Girls-112)
- Children rescued from brick kilns – 203 (Boys-122, Girls-81)
- Children rescued from begging –119 (Boys-61, Girls-58)
- Children rescued from industries/ employments – 930 (Boys-807, Girls-123)
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