CID traces missing Hyderabad boy after ten years in Kanpur

Hyderabad:In a tale straight out of a movie script, a 12-year-old boy, Mohd Khaleel Ghori, who went missing from Kanchanbagh in 2014, was adopted by a retired employee’s family in Kanpur, and raised as Abinav Singh.

Now 22 years old, he was traced by the Crime Investigation Department (CID), women's safety wing, whose personnel handed Singh (Ghori) to his parents in the city.

CID chief Shikha Goel on Wednesday stated that Ghori was missing since August 18, 2014. The team of SHE cyber lab and anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) in the women safety wing take up such long-pending missing cases and make all out efforts to trace them, she said.

The boy had left home with just his Aadhar card. Even though efforts were made by the local police, he could not be traced. Later, the case was transferred to AHTU, CID. During investigation, the technical team collected all digital identities of the missing boy using open-source tools as well as police investigation tools.

"His digital identity was changed through the Aadhar card and was updated with a new mobile number. Based on the small lead, the team verified the details of the mobile number and identified that it was related to a retired government employee of Kanpur. It was found that at the age of 12 years the boy went to UP by train and while moving around at the Kanpur railway station, he was taken to a child care institution by railway police. In 2022, he was adopted by the retired government employee Sanehi Singh, who changed the boy’s name to Abinav Singh," Goel said.