The boy had gone lacking when he was solely 6 years previous, his father informed police. (Representational)
Chandigarh:
A minor boy, who had gone lacking a decade in the past, was reunited together with his household in Rajasthan by Haryana Police’s anti-human trafficking unit, an official mentioned on Wednesday.
The spokesperson mentioned the method started when the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) Panchkula contacted the welfare officer at a kids’s house within the Patiala district of Punjab in quest of lacking kids.
The welfare officer knowledgeable them that they didn’t have any kids from Haryana. However, there was a child, the placement of whose’ household couldn’t be traced, he mentioned.
“During counselling, the kid informed his guardian’s names and that he was a resident of Samastipur in Bihar. On contacting the deal with talked about by him, it was revealed that he didn’t belong to the mentioned household and was discovered on a practice as an alternative,” the spokesperson mentioned.
During additional counselling, a village positioned within the Sirohi district of Rajasthan got here up. The child’s image was despatched to the village, which was recognised by his father – Shankar Lal – who, too, despatched a photograph of himself. After that, a video name was made to him.
“Lal said that his son had gone lacking from their village in 2013 when he was solely 6 years previous,” mentioned the spokesperson, including that the minor has now been handed over to his household after required formalities.
In one other incident, the Himachal Pradesh Child Welfare Committee (CWC) knowledgeable the AHTU Panchkula that that they had two minor kids, aged 11 and eight, who appeared to have a reference to Haryana.
“The AHTU gathered details about each the kids and performed counselling classes over the cellphone. The 11-year-old little one appeared to be aware of the language spoken close to the Jind space of Haryana,” he mentioned.
Post the counselling, the 11-year-old kid’s household was traced to Bhiwani Road in Jind, whereas the 8-year-old kid’s household was traced to Kalka in Panchkula. Both the kids have been additionally reunited with their households.
He mentioned State Crime Branch chief, Additional Director General of Police, O P Singh, has instructed all of the AHTU in-charges to periodically go to the kids’s properties of all of the states bordering Haryana that may allow them to create a database to hurry up the marketing campaign to hint the family of the lacking kids.
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