{
  "id": 1406098,
  "title": "Bhiwandi Shocker: Two 17-Year-Old Girls Go Missing In Separate Incidents, Police Register Kidnapping Cases; Search Operations Underway",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/bhiwandi-shocker-two-17-year-old-girls-go-missing-in-separate",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T03:02:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/bhiwandi-shocker-two-17-year-old-girls-go-missing-in-separate-incidents-police-register-kidnapping-cases-search-operations-underway"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mumbai police have registered kidnapping cases after two minor girls went missing in separate incidents in Bhiwandi. The first case came to light at Shantinagar Police Station when a 17-year-old girl left home claiming she was heading to a friend's house. Her family, unable to locate her, filed a complaint leading to a kidnapping case being registered. The second incident occurred at Brahmanand Nagar in Kamatghar, where a 17-year-old girl left home at around 2am, without informing anyone, after her family had gone to sleep. Despite extensive search efforts, her whereabouts remain unknown, prompting the family to approach the police.",
  "summary": "Mumbai: Two minor girls recently went missing in separate incidents reported from the Bhiwandi Police Commissionerate limits. The respective police stations have registered kidnapping cases. Also Watch: The first case was reported under Shantinagar Police Station, where a 17-year-old girl left home after telling her mother that she was going to a friend’s house. When she failed to return, her…",
  "key_points": [
    "Two 17-year-old girls missing in Bhiwandi incidents.",
    "Police register kidnapping cases in separate incidents.",
    "Search operations underway for missing girls."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The registration of kidnapping cases in both incidents marks a shift in police approach, indicating that authorities now consider the girls' disappearances as potentially involuntary or suspicious.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}