After deputy CM Pawan Kalyan’s intervention, minor girl missing from Vijayawada found in J&K

Vijayawada: Nine months after a 19-year-old girl reportedly went missing in Vijayawada, the police traced the girl in Jammu and Kashmir. The girl has reportedly fled away with her 21-year-old Amjed, a senior from the college.

According to the police, a complaint was lodged by the girl’s mother Siva Kumari on October 28, 2023. A native of Bhimavaram, the girl is studying in Machavaram staying at her relatives place. The girl reportedly went with her senior in the college. An investigation by the police found that the boy had a history of going with another girl to Araku Valley for a week.

The mother sought intervention from deputy CM

On June 22, Pawan Kalyan attended to people’s issues at the Janavani Center. One woman whose daughter went missing requested him to find her, saying that the Machavaram police had not taken any action so far. According to the woman, her daughter was cheated in the name of love and was kidnapped by the boy.

Hearing that the Vijayawada police did not take action on FIRs registered about missing cases, he called upon the police to immediately take up the issue.

Team formed to trace the girl

On Tuesday, the police traced her in Jammu and Kashmir and are trying to bring her back with the help of the local police. According to the police, a special team was formed to trace the girl.

According to the police, on October 28, 2023 night, the duo went to Hyderabad and stayed for a few days. Later, they went to Kerala, Mumbai, Delhi and finally reached Jammu & Kashmir. The boy started working in a hotel and did not allow her to use mobile phone.

Police could trace the whereabouts of them through a message she secretly sent to her elder sister on Instagram.

Pawan to form special cell to trace missing girls

“There have been hundreds of missing cases in the last five years but no proper investigation has been taken by the previous government,” said Pawan Kalyan. He also advised the parents to be cautious and alert with the children. He personally spoke to the Vijayawada Commissioner of Police Ramakrishna and got the details of the girl who was traced in Jammu & Kashmir.

They both will be brought to Vijayawada on Wednesday afternoon through flight.

Pawan Kalyan also directed the police to plan for a special cell to handle missing cases in the state.

30,000 missing cases

In 2023, In a written reply to a question raised in Rajya Sabha in 2023, the then Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra said a total of 30,196 females from Andhra Pradesh, including 7918 girls below 18 years and 22,278 women above 18, went missing in a span of three years between 2019 and 2021.

According to the data, 2,186 girls and 6,252 women went missing in 2019 from Andhra Pradesh; 2,374 girls and 7,057 women in 2020, and 3,358 girls and 8,969 women in 2021.

Soon after the Centre made the statement in Rajya Sabha, Pawan Kalyan took to X and said the statement clearly showed that the number of missing girls and women in Andhra Pradesh has been on a rising trend. “Why are our girls and women missing? What’s happening to them? Who will take responsibility?...” he asked. In a public rally in Eluru on July 9, 2023, Pawan Kalyan said that only 14,000 were traced and the fate of another 16,000 women was not yet known.

He alleged that village and ward volunteers, appointed by the State government, were relaying information pertaining to single women, widows and destitute girls and passing on the information to anti-social elements. “These elements are making use of this information to target women and traffic or trap them,” Pawan Kalyan said.