Chennai: The Madras high court summoned the Tamil Nadu home secretary to explain reasons for delay in probing child missing cases that were registered more than two years ago.
A division bench headed by Justice M Sathyanarayanan passed the order on a habeas corpus plea moved by Nirmal of Exnora seeking direction to trace and produce two children who went missing from the platform near Parry’s corner and Wall Tax Road.
During hearing the bench pulled up the state government for not filing a proper report on the status of pending child missing cases in the state.
The bench observed that it is high time the concerned departments shall bestow their best attention and show some sensitivity to the problems, especially by taking into consideration the anxiety of the parents, whose children are missing and untraceable for quite a long time.
