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How should states close the missing persons gap
Times of India··11 Aug
The court ordered anti human trafficking units to be fully functional and sought nationwide portal integration within six weeks, listing the next hearing for October 5, 2026. States that skipped affidavits already face contempt warnings from the bench. If FIRs must start immediately for every missing report, what staffing and data links make that duty real outside metros?
Prism
What It Means For You
- Families reporting a missing adult or child can insist police register an FIR without age based delay.
- State officials who treated the order as child only now face explicit contempt warnings from the court.
- Citizens can track October 5 compliance hearings and the six week portal integration deadline.
What's Happening
- The Supreme Court said its May 22 missing person FIR direction covers every person, not only children.
- Judges warned non compliant Chief Secretaries and DGPs could face contempt proceedings.
- Agencies were told to finish integrating relevant portals nationwide within six weeks.
From Child Trafficking Alarm to Universal FIR Duty
- The original May order rose from the finding that tens of thousands of children remained untraced.
- Anti human trafficking units were ordered to become fully functional within four weeks of that ruling.
- Uneven state affidavits show how Supreme Court monitoring still drives police practice on disappearances.
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