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Delhi HC pulls up centre over missing children

PTI
Published : Apr 6, 2018, 6:20 am IST
Updated : Apr 6, 2018, 6:20 am IST

The directions of the court to run the FRS on a test basis cannot be implemented.

Delhi High Court. (Photo: PTI/File)
 Delhi High Court. (Photo: PTI/File)

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday pulled up the Centre for not sharing the details of missing children with the police despite its orders and warned of initiating contempt action if due seriousness was not shown in the 20-year-old matter.

The court said police officials were ultimately responsible for tracking down missing children and the more the ministry of women and child development (MWCD) delayed sharing access to its data base with the police, the greater would be the problem. “There can be no legitimate reason for the MWCD to be sitting on the data of missing children,” a Bench of justices S. Muralidhar and I.S. Mehta said.

The court expressed displeasure when it was informed by the Delhi Police’s special commissioner that it has obtained its own face recognition software but it was unable to do trial run of the application. as the MWCD has not provided the data.

It said the MWCD maintains the data of missing children, including their photographs, unique ID and the child welfare committee details, and without access to the details being given to the Delhi Police, the directions of the court to run the FRS on a test basis cannot be implemented.

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