Meerut police have successfully located a missing 17-year-old girl and detained eight individuals as part of their ongoing investigation into her disappearance from the Kharkhauda area.
Police have traced a 17-year-old girl who had gone missing from the Kharkhauda area of the district and detained eight people in connection with her disappearance, an officer said on Thursday.
Superintendent of Police (Rural) Abhijeet Kumar said that on April 26, a woman had filed a missing person complaint for her underage daughter at the Kharkhauda Police Station.
The police filed a case and booked a Ganganagar man the woman named, he said.
Kumar said five special teams were constituted to find the girl and unravel the matter.
On Wednesday, he said, the police traced the girl's location with the help of CCTV footage and retrieved her.
Based on her statement, eight people were detained for questioning, the officer said.