SHC orders to constitute JIT, use modern tools to recover missing kids

KARACHI: Sindh High Court on Thursday directed police authorities for constituting a joint investigation team (JIT) and using modern tools to recover missing children, ARY News reported.

Declaring police reports about recovery of children unsatisfactory, the court said police’s performance in this regard was frivolous.

The high court ordered for posting missing children’s pictures at public places and directed police to submit a report in this regard by March 21 to the court.

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Last month, the police had confessed before a bench of the SHC, that they were failed in recovering 18 missing children.

A two-member bench, headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto, was hearing a case regarding the missing children.

The court had expressed its displeasure over the police performance adding that police failed to recover the missing children despite repeated court orders. The bench ordered the department to step up its efforts and recover the children in any way.

Earlier, the DIG crime branch had informed the court that police was working on the case and got information regarding whereabouts of a missing girl Asima, who was said to be in Balochistan.

The DIG had said that the police department’s anti-human trafficking cell was working for recovery of missing children.