Telangana's face-recognition technology helps unite missing Assam girl with family
A facial recognition tool developed by the Telangana police has helped in reuniting a missing Assam girl with her family, officials said today. Anjali Tigga had gone to Delhi in search of livelihood. However, last September, she returned to Assam and, without informing her parents, started working near Sonitpur. Her parents had filed a missing complaint with the police in August last year.
Anjali was admitted to a shelter home in Tezpur
Railway police spotted her wandering on the streets and handed her to the Child Welfare Committee, who admitted Anjali to a shelter home at Tezpur. With the help of Darpan, the face recognition software, Anjali was traced to a Children's Home in Sonipur of Assam's Tezpur district, Telangana IGP (Law and Order), Woman Safety Wing, Swati Lakra said. Police subsequently approached her parents.
Database of all persons missing stored in Darpan
The cops informed the parents of Anjali's whereabouts and got the girl reunited with her family yesterday, said Lakra. Database of all persons missing have been downloaded and stored in Darpan for further use, she said. She added several other photographs have also been matched and the verification process was underway to identify these children and reunite them with their families.
Darpan tries to match photos of missing one using database
Darpan, launched this August, tries to match photos of those missing with lakhs of digital photographs stored in the central database of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems. Darpan maintains a database of children and persons lodged at various rescue homes across the country.
