241 children under 10 have gone missing so far this year

The officer said 11 children were reported missing from Narela, Shahbad Dairy and Neb Sarai and nine from Samaypur Badli and and Vijay Vihar.

Outer district has a cumulative count of 86 children, the highest in any district. Northeast and South districts have 27 and 26 cases, respectively, West district has 23 cases, Northwest and Southwest each has 14, Southeast has 13, East has 10, Central has nine, Crime and Railways has eight, North and New Delhi have five each and IGI airport has one case.

Of these, five children were reported missing from the high security New Delhi district.

This list excludes children aged between 10 and 18, police said. If these cases are counted, then it could drastically up the numbers.
Police said the priority was to search and find those missing under the age of 10 since these children are the most vulnerable and could have become victims of kidnapping or child-trafficking.

Police said those children in the higher age group, who were reported missing by their parents, might have voluntarily left home or eloped. For these cases a different approach in investigation was needed, the officer said.