Overview
- The statewide review launched on May 7 traced 1,470 missing people after a month of focused casework and reunified many with families.
- Police reported a demographic breakdown of 852 women, 342 men, 42 minor boys and 234 minor girls, with Surat City Police recording the most recoveries at 341.
- Teams combined technical tools such as mobile-phone analysis and social-media checks with field work including transport-hub and shelter-home verifications and witness re-interviews.
- Investigators found romantic relationships and elopement were leading causes of disappearance for girls aged 14–17, with family disputes and migrant labour movement also contributing to cases.
- The operation reopened long-pending files—including cases dating to 2007—produced recoveries from several other states and drew on family counselling, and officials ordered that tracing continue as part of routine policing.