Claim: 13.13 lakh girls and women went missing in India between 2019-2021.
Fact-check: About 2.03 Lakh girls and women remained untraced by end of 2021, not 13.13 Lakh - FACTLY
Verdict: on 26 july 2023, in the rajya sabha, in response to a question about missing women, the government presented data on missing women and girls for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021 based on ncrb annual reports. upon careful examination of these reports, we observed that these figures are cumulative and include untraced women and girls from previous years as well. moreover, these figures only account for missing cases and not the actual number of women and girls still missing and traced, as a significant number of individuals were traced every year. this implies that these figures do not represent the true number of missing  girls and women. a total of 2,03,893 females remained untraced by end of 2021. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Akshay Kumar Appani
Date published: 2024-02-25T03:37:26