Overview
- The bench directed police to register an FIR immediately for every missing person or child and to include the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita kidnapping provisions at the outset to ensure a serious criminal probe.
- Police anti‑human trafficking units must be made fully functional with powers and infrastructure within four weeks to take on cases that show signs of organised trafficking.
- The court ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs to build an all‑India police data grid and a dedicated trafficking portal and directed that Aadhaar biometric verification and uploads to the Mission Vatsalya portal follow every rescue.
- Recovered children should ordinarily be restored to their families within 24 hours after verification unless there is evidence the family was involved, in which case state agencies and Child Welfare Committees take charge.
- The orders, issued in a petition originating from G. Ganesh about his daughter Kavitha and citing roughly 47,000 untraced children, were passed on Friday and will be reviewed for compliance and operational implementation in August.