New Delhi: The Supreme Court, while expressing serious concern for missing children, has asked the National Police Academy, Hyderabad, to consult police authorities across the country and to come out with a study curriculum and a training module for sensitising police on child rights and to trace missing children, prevent human trafficking and child labour and other vices that go with exploitation of children.

A bench comprising Justices Madan B. Lokur and Uday Lalit asked the Centre and the States to have coordinated efforts to trace missing children. The bench gave this direction during the hearing of a writ petition filed by Bachpan Bachao Andolan.

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INNOCENCE LOST
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3,27,658 children missing since 2011 in India
1,81,011 of the missing children are girls
1,46,647 of the missing children are boys