child welfare

New Delhi (Gurpreet Singh): The Supreme Court of India has issued a notice to the Central Government, demanding a comprehensive response following a deeply concerning report highlighting that 1.47 lakh children are currently missing across the country. The top court expressed severe anxiety over data suggesting a growing, illicit nexus between unregulated commercial surrogacy networks and inter-state child trafficking syndicates. A Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan noted that significant systemic gaps in coordination between various state and central law enforcement agencies have allowed organised trafficking networks to exploit vulnerable minors. The court emphasized that a substantial number…