The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that 807 people went missing in the national capital during the first two weeks of January 2026, as per the Delhi Police data. They include 191 minors and 616 adults.
The Police has traced 235 people, and 572 remain untraced so far.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of violation of human rights. Therefore, it has issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, calling for a detailed report on the matter within two weeks.
According to reports, a total of 24,508 people were reported missing in Delhi in 2025. Among them, sixty per cent were women.
The police could trace 15,421 missing people, while 9,087 cases are still unresolved. The data has also highlighted the risk being faced by teenagers, as more than 5,000 teenagers, of which about 3500 were girls, had gone missing every year since 2016.
