A facial recognition software called ‘darpan’, developed by Telangana police, recently helped in re-uniting a missing girl with her family. A 16-year-old girl identified as Anjali Tigga, who left home on July 1 last year, finally met her mother after 17 long months.
Anjali Tigga of Boginodi in Assam’s Lakhimpur went to Delhi in search of livelihood. However, in September last year she went back to Assam without informing her parents and started working near Sonitpur there.
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. Her parents had filed a missing complaint with the police in August last year.
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With the help of Darpan, police was able to spot the girl. Police approached her parents and informed them of Anjali’s whereabouts and reunited the girl with her family on Sunday.
About ‘Darpan’ face detection tool
Darpan, launched by the Telangana police in August this year, has a unique feature of matching photographs of children who are missing, with those of children who are lodged at various child rescue homes across the country, resulting in the detection of missing children. The application links the child in a shelter home with the missing report across the country resulting in detection of the missing children.
