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SC Order on Missing Child Cases
May 27 , 2026
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- The Supreme Court of India ordered all police stations to register a First Information Report (FIR) for every missing child and missing person complaint.
- The Court directed police to immediately treat missing child cases as possible kidnapping or abduction cases under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.
- The judgment was delivered by a bench of Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice R. Mahadevan.
- The Court ordered all Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) across India to become fully functional within four weeks.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs was directed to create a national data grid linking all police stations for missing children, missing women, and trafficking cases.
- The Court also formed a committee headed by Justice Mukta Gupta to prepare a pan-India Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for missing children cases.
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