Overview
- Police reported Friday that 11 FIRs covering 13 girls were filed after a series of disappearance reports that began in late April and continued into early June.
- Authorities said several girls have been traced and reunited with their families, with police naming four recoveries so far and tracing three cousins to their native village in Uttar Pradesh.
- The Ludhiana commissionerate says preliminary inquiries show no evidence of an organised kidnapping network and that many cases appear to involve voluntary departures for personal or family reasons.
- The State Women’s Commission has demanded a detailed report by June 8 and deleted a social-media post about the cases, a move that intensified public scrutiny of police handling.
- Families have complained about delays or difficulty in registering some complaints, and investigators are using technical surveillance and field inquiries to resolve remaining cases, a process that could trigger further oversight or policy changes depending on the commission's findings.