Missing Seven-Year-Old Rescued After Massive CCTV Trail Across 948 Cameras Leads Police to Badlapur

The Mumbra police in Thane traced a missing seven-year-old girl after scanning footage from 948 CCTV cameras , ultimately rescuing her safely from Badlapur following a coordinated multi-day operation.

The girl, a resident of the Diva area , went missing on May 28, triggering a kidnapping case and the deployment of six investigation teams. Police first identified her movement through neighbourhood CCTV footage , which became the starting point of a continuous digital trail.

Investigators mapped her route in phases, using railway station CCTV networks from Diva to Ambernath and onward to Badlapur. Footage showed her boarding a train at Diva railway station with a 35-year-old HR executive identified as Sumit Shantaram Jadhav , who later took her to his residence.

Police later located the girl at Jadhav’s home in Badlapur, where she was found safe with his three minor children. Officials noted that the man claimed he took the child after finding her alone at the station and acted out of concern for her safety, while also citing personal experiences involving child protection in his family.

According to additional reports, the girl told police she had left home due to alleged ill-treatment and excessive household chores . She was later examined medically, with police stating there were no signs of sexual assault .

Authorities said the case was solved through coordinated CCTV integration and rapid multi-team tracking , describing it as a high-pressure operation across a dense suburban railway network.