Rajendra Dhondu Bhosale is an Indian police officer, known for his efforts to rescue missing children in Mumbai, including a nine year long search for a missing child that resulted in tracing the child and reuniting the child with her family in 2022, well after his retirement.[1][2]
Bhosale joined Police in 1978 as a constable. In 2011, he was assigned the charge of the missing bureau at Dadabhai Naoroji Nagar police station, where he pursued 340 separate cases of missing children (of 174 boys and 166 girls). Out of these, he traced 171 boy children and 165 girl children between 2011 and 2015. The remaining three boy children were also traced later, though not through his efforts. However, one child remained untraced, which troubled him even after his retirement in 2015.[3][4] He continued his efforts, for a good seven years after his retirement, carrying the photo of the child wherever he went, till at last he traced and reunited the child with her family in 2022.[5]
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- ↑ Nair, Smita (8 August 2022). "'Meri Pooja mil gayi': The story of a missing girl and the cop who never stopped looking for her". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
- ↑ Narayan, V (2022-08-06). "Mumbai: A decade on, cops find abducted minor". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
- ↑ "Girl No.166: Will this retired cop ever stop looking for Pooja?". The Indian Express. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "The mystery of vanishing children". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
- ↑ Thaver, Mohamed (2022-09-06). "9 years and 7 months to Girl No. 166: A lost and found Mumbai story". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-10-30.