BANGALORE: The Bangalore city police on Wednesday submitted to the Karnataka High Court that 7,631 people have been reported missing in Bangalore since April 2005 and, of them, 5,037 have been traced.

In an affidavit/report to the court, the police said though more than 2,500 missing persons were yet to be traced, there were instances when people reported missing had come back but had not reported to the police.

The Bangalore city police, the Corps of Detectives (CoD) and the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) filed affidavits following an earlier direction by the court asking them to do so and detail the steps needed to be taken to expedite cases involving missing persons.

The police, the affidavit signed by Commissioner of Police N. Achuta Rao said, had initiated several measures to trace missing persons, including the setting up of a missing persons bureau in the Police Control Room and posting information on missing persons on the city police website.

Moreover, instructions had been given to deputy commissioners of police to personally review the progress of cases concerning missing persons during the monthly crime review meetings.

The affidavit said assistant commissioners of police (ACPs) at the subdivisional level would be nominated as nodal officers to review cases of missing persons. Efforts would be made to upgrade the city police website by incorporating additional features.

An ACP in the City Crime Records Bureau (CCRB) would be entrusted with the job of monitoring and upgrading the website daily.

On an average, 400 missing person cases are reported every month from Bangalore alone.

In its report, the CoD submitted that it was a specialised investigating agency and did not routinely take up cases involving missing persons. Only one such case was being investigated by it.

The FSL report said that during 2005-06 it examined and subjected to different tests 12 persons involved in three missing person cases.

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