Overview
- The two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Sunkara Gnaneswari, went missing from an oil‑palm plantation on June 6 and her parents reported her absence the next day after realising each had assumed the other had taken her home.
- The family’s pet dog returned to the house without the child on June 9 and police fitted the animal with a GPS collar on June 12 to try to trace the child’s route.
- More than 250 personnel from local police, the State Disaster Response Force and forest teams have been deployed for large ground searches but sniffer dogs and search teams have so far found no confirmed leads.
- An unofficial attempt by a man who said he could trace the child using a silver ornament and a detector failed, and investigators say the dog’s earlier confinement and anxious behaviour may have reduced scent‑tracking chances.
- Officials have not ruled out kidnapping, the Chief Minister’s Office is watching the case, and investigators say the next steps will rely on GPS data from the dog and continued coordinated searches in the rural terrain.