Cops Use Google Maps To Reunite Lost Girl With Her Family

Technology and its gigantic spread is facilitating different departments in their functioning. This time, it was the police department that made use of technology to reunite a 7-year old girl with her family.

The girl had gone missing from a wedding in Delhi. But Google Maps helped the police locate her village and hand over the girl back to her family. The satellite images that the Maps displayed along with the child's description about her village made the reunion possible.

It all started when a police constable, Vikram, found the girl who had lost her way after coming out of the wedding venue. He then took her to the Malviya Nagar police station and handed her over to the cops.

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The girl was initially unable to answer any of the questions that the constable asked her. "She was unable to tell us about her village and just said that she had come to a wedding with her parents," DCP of South Delhi, Romil Baaniya, told TOI

After a lot of interrogation, the constables managed to figure out that the girl was from Meerut. After more clues from the girl, the cops located her village - Kol - which is 44 km from Meerut. They confirmed the girl's details with the village sarpanch and then handed over the girl to her family.

This is just one of the many incidents where technology has helped solve difficult problems and helped humans in distress. It proves that technology is definitely a wonderful tool if utilised judiciously.

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