Finding lapses in the Delhi Police’s ability to find the nine girls, including a minor, missing from Sanskaar Home for Girls in Dilshad Garden for a month, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has issued a notice to the Anti-Trafficking Unit of Delhi Police Crime Branch and has asked them to provide the status report about the ongoing investigation.

On December 1, nine girls including a minor went missing from the shelter home at Dilshad Garden. They were reportedly last seen at around 11.45 pm by the night duty guards at the Girls Home and according to CCTV footages, they were last seen approaching dormitory-5 at the Sanskaar Ashram for Girls.

According to reports, the minor girl aged 16-year-old is a resident from Bihar, while eight others are Nepali citizens. DCW Chairperson

Swati Maliwal had earlier disclosed that these girls were victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

It was also revealed by the commission that they had been transferred from Catalist Trust shelter home in Dwarka to the Shelter home in Dilshad Garden.  The Delhi Police Crime Branch with DCW on November 25 and 26 in the year 2017 had allegedly rescued 16 girls from GB Road Kothi no-56 and 64. The girls were all rehabilitated at Cataliast Trust shelter home in Dwarka, a source told The Pioneer.

However, according to a First Information Report (FIR), dated January 24, 2018, four girls went missing from the Catalist Shelter Home in Dwarka. Following which the nine girls were transferred to the Dilshad Garden Home. All the girls missing have yet to be found.

On December 9, 2018, a protest was organization in front of the Nepal Embassy, by Antarastriaya Nepali Samaj, India for their failure to repatriate the girls rescued from the brothels. They argued that even after they were rescued more than a year ago, the embassy did not send them back to Nepal.

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal in their notice directed the Delhi Police Crime Branch to report update status of the investigation to the commission, every three days starting from the receipt of the notice.