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Four children go missing

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Hot on the heels of the arrest of a young man for allegedly abducting and criminally assaulting a six-year-old girl at R. K. Puram over the weekend, four children are reportedly missing from different parts of South-West Delhi.

According to a Child Helpline official, four minors, all aged between two and ten years, went missing from the South-West Delhi this past Friday. Two of them were girls.

The first call received by the Child Helpline related to three-year-old Karan. He went missing from Palam village at 11-30 a.m. on Friday. Similarly eight-year-old Sunita went missing from Bharat Vihar at 6 p.m. Two-year-old Visukha and his ten-year-old cousin Poochu also went missing from Rajapuri the same day, the official said.

"Poochu and Visukha were both playing outside their house when they went missing under mysterious circumstances at 9 a.m. on Friday. Poochu, who lives with his parents in Noida, is mentally challenged and had come here to meet his aunt," said Chandan, a relative of the missing children.

Chandan said the family had registered a complaint with the Dabri police station the same day but the children have not been traced even after a week. "Some police officers took Visukha's parents to the police station today evening for inquiry," he said.

According to a senior police officer at the Dwarka police station, Sunita, who had come from Bihar to meet her aunt, had lost her way and was soon traced. "She has been sent to Nirmal Chaya orphanage," he said. He expressed hope that Karan would also be traced soon.

Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said: "The cases are not interlinked and do not hint at any trend. There is no need to panic."

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