The Hassan police, investigating the missing cases reported since 2011, have succeeded in tracing 27 children and 33 women. They are all in safe places.
Hassan SP Hariram Shankar constituted a special team headed by Manjunath, probationary Dy.SP, to probe 169 missing cases reported since 2011. As of now, the team has succeeded in cracking 51 of them. As many as 50 people, including 27 children, have been traced. One girl, who went missing for about 10 years, is said to have been murdered.
Hariram Shankar told The Hindu that the probe was conducted to check if those who went missing were in a safe place or if they had become victims of human trafficking or murdered. “The team was assigned this job for one month. They were given a vehicle to travel in. They did travel across the State and outside to trace the missing people. Within a month, the team succeeded in cracking 51 cases. It is a commendable job. Additional SP Thammaiah and I reviewed the progress once in two days,” he said.
