Kanpur: Technology helped reunite three missing kids hailing from Nepal with their parents.
The Govind Nagar police with the help of Google Maps rescued and handed three minor girls hailing from Nepal to their parents on Thursday. The girls were rescued from near Dadanagar rail tracks on Tuesday. Two of them were stated to be sisters.
According to police, police out-post in-charge Dada Nagar on Tuesday got suspicious when he spotted three minor girls loitering near rail tracks. They were subsequently brought to the Govind Nagar police station for questioning where they revealed that they belonged to Singhraha Hadauna, a place in Kapilvastu district of Nepal.
Later, SI Syed Zubair Sharif with the help of Google Maps application contacted counterparts in Nepal, who confirmed that complaints about the three missing girls had been lodged on April 19, 2021. Stated to be residents of Kapilvastu district, they were handed over to Nepal police at Govind Nagar police station on Thursday where their parents were also summoned.
“We took help of Google Maps to locate their village and contacted Nepal police through WhatsApp and handed over the girls back to their families. Based on the description that the children narrated about their village, we searched for their location and took help of the satellite images that Maps displayed,” said Shareef further.
SI of Nepal Police, Shyam Singh Chaudhary, told reporters that the parents of the two sisters had arrived with them in Kanpur and the three girls have been handed over to them after verification of their documents.