In a remarkable effort, Telangana police successfully traced and reunited six missing children with their families after years of searching. The first case involved Mohd Khaleel Ghouri, who disappeared from his home in Kanchanbagh at the age of 12 in 2014. The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Women Safety Wing tracked him to Uttar Pradesh with the help of his Aadhaar card number.

Khaleel had traveled to Uttar Pradesh by train, where he was detained by railway police and placed in a children’s home. In 2022, he was adopted by a man from Kanpur. After using a mobile number linked to Khaleel’s Aadhaar card, a special team from Telangana police managed to locate him and bring him back to his biological parents in Hyderabad.

In another case, a girl who had been missing from a children’s home since 2015 was traced in Nizamabad. She was found to be married to Saiba Tarun and now has two children. Additionally, three children from Chandrayangutta, missing since 2017, were located in Bengaluru.

Shikha Goel, Director General of the Women Safety Wing, mentioned that special teams are working tirelessly on long-pending missing person cases. So far, 27 such cases have been successfully resolved. In 2024, 22,780 missing person cases were reported in Telangana, with 19,191 traced, resulting in an impressive success rate of 84.25%.

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