40,000 Women Missing in Gujarat
After The Kerala Story, people are focusing on Gujarat according to the NCRB Data. 40,000 girls have gone missing! Did they come back? Are they still missing? Find out here!
In a shocking piece of news we have come to know that over 40,000 women have gone missing in Gujarat in the period of five years, between 2016 to 2020. These statistics were brought to light by the data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Several media organisations have claimed that over 40,000 women in Gujarat had gone missing, without providing the information that 95 per cent or over 39,400 of them had been traced down and reunited with their families, even though the official sources have already quoted these details.
The investigation has revealed that women go missing due to family disputes, elopement, failure in examinations etc. However, the investigation into missing person cases has not revealed episodes of trafficking for sexual exploitation, organ trafficking etc.,” a tweet by Gujarat Police read. This all has come up right now after being influenced by the movie The Kerala Story.
Shiv Sena (UBT) newspaper Saamna talked about “thousands of girls missing from Gujarat and other states”. It blamed Modi government and said this is showing us the dark side of Gujarat. The Marathi daily also attacked the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra over the disappearance several women in the state and said the police, that were being used to settle political scores, should rather be used to trace the missing women.
According to several reports, Sudhir Sinha, a former IPS officer and member of the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission said that women are forced into prostitution. He said, "In some missing person cases, I have observed that girls and women are occasionally sent to states other than Gujarat and forced into prostitution. The police system's problem is that it doesn't treat missing person cases seriously. Such cases are more serious than murder. That's because when a child goes missing, the parents wait for years for their child, and the missing case should be investigated as rigorously as a murder case."
