LUCKNOW, June 14 -- Days after the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court pulled up the commissioner of police (CP) over missing minor girls and ordered close monitoring of investigations in such cases, the Lucknow Police on Saturday recovered four girls and nabbed four accused in three separate cases.

The recoveries come two days after the high court sought a progress report from commissioner of police Amrendra Sengar on 34 girls who remain untraced in Lucknow. According to figures submitted before the court, 261 girls were reported missing, abducted or enticed away in the city during the past six months. While 227 have been traced, 34 remain missing.

In Mohanlalganj, investigators unearthed what they described as a network that all...