Updated On: 04 November, 2022 07:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Rescues, carried out swiftly, part of Mumbai police’s Operation Reunite; eight child labourers among those saved

Mumbai CP Vivek Phansalkar hands over Fatima Shaikh to her family on Thursday. Pic/Atul Kamble
Under the Operation Reunite, the Mumbai police have rescued 487 missing or abducted children in 45 days, from August 15 to September 30, and even reunited many of them with their family. Of the 487 children the Mumbai police have rescued, 257 are girls and 230 boys, announced Commissioner of Police (CP) Vivek Phansalkar who had launched the operation.
According to the Mumbai police’s data, missing person complaints were filed for 68 boys and 135 girls who were traced and reunited with their family. Besides, 154 boys and 122 girls rescued were not on the record of missing people. Eight child labourers were also among the 487 children rescued. The Mumbai police have not released the data from beyond September 30, but mentioned about only two children abducted recently—a one-year-old girl and a one-day-old baby.