New Delhi, July 17 -- One of the most emotional cases was that of a 33-year-old woman who had remained missing for nearly eight years after disappearing in November 2017. According to investigators, the woman revealed that the death of her father had pushed her into severe depression. Unable to cope with the loss, she quietly left home and spent years moving from one place to another across the country without informing her family. She was eventually traced in Jaipur, bringing an agonising wait for her family to an end.

A similar emotional story emerged in the case of a 12-year-old girl who had gone missing in May 2022. After years of uncertainty, she was eventually found at a shelter home in Delhi, ending a search that had stretched for...