Archive · 24 Sep 2025
Supreme Court Orders Online Portal for Missing Children
The Supreme Court wants the government to build a special website.
This website is to help find children who have gone missing or are being trafficked.
The court wants the police across the country to share information on the website so they can work together better.
Each state will have an officer who is in charge of putting information on the website.
The Supreme Court hopes this will make it easier to find missing children.
The Home Ministry will oversee the website.
Supreme Court directed the Centre to create a portal.
The portal is under the Home Ministry.
The portal aims to help trace missing children and investigate cases.
A dedicated officer from each state will handle complaints.
The court emphasized the need for a coordinated effort.
- Who
- Supreme Court, Centre
- What
- Ordered creation of an online portal to trace missing children
- When
- Wednesday (article date)
- Where
- India
- Why
- To improve coordination and address missing children cases
Court/NGO
N/A
Implementation of Portal
Court/NGO
Advocates for a centralized, coordinated approach via portal.
N/A
N/A
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Action
- Ordered creation of online portal
- Purpose
- Trace missing children and investigate cases
- Oversight
- Union Home Ministry
- Central Role
- Centralized portal for police
- Related to
- Missing children cases, trafficking
