LUCKNOW, June 12 -- A day 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 was under pressure even as it said it had formed multiple teams to find the 34 girls who remain untraced across the city.

In what appeared to be a damage-control exercise, deputy commissioner of police (East) Deeksha Sharma said senior officers were personally monitoring the cases and that all zones had been directed to follow a standard operating procedure (SOP) in the investigations.

"Multiple teams have been constituted and the probe is being tracked closely. A proper SOP is being followed and soon the remaining...