3,400 missing untraceable

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy
16th Nov 2008
Hyderabad and Cyberabad top list of unsolved cases
Around 40 per cent of the 8,500 persons who go missing every year in the State are not traced.
Hyderabad and Cyberabad tops in the number of missing persons according to State Crime Records Bureau. Many of the missing cases later turn out to be kidnappings, sex abuse and murders.
In all, 2,273 persons went missing in the Hyderabad police commissionerate limits in 2007, of which 1,066 were women. Of them, police is yet to trace 532 children and 346 women.
In fact, the real number of missing persons is much higher than this.
“Every year we prepare a list of untraceable missing persons but this list is not added to the new records in the following year,” said a senior police officer. “Most of the girls who go missing end up in brothels. They are also trapped by organised gangs,” said an official.
Last year, 117 missing cases in the state turned out to be kidnappings, 10 were found to be sex abuse and 45 missing persons were murdered.
A proposal made six years ago to start a Missing Cases Cell in the Crime Investigation Department is yet to take off. The National Crime Bureau had also expressed concern at the high number of unidentified bodies being found in the outskirts of AP cities.