The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed deep concern over a news report claiming that a child goes missing in India every eight minutes, calling the issue “serious” and urging the Centre to strengthen mechanisms for tracing missing children and regulating adoption.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan made the remarks while hearing a petition concerning unresolved cases of missing and trafficked minors. Justice Nagarathna noted, “I have read in a newspaper that every eight minutes, a child goes missing in the country. I don’t know if this is true or not. But this is a serious issue,” adding that the complexity of India’s adoption system often pushes people toward illegal alternatives.

During the hearing, Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Union g

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