Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Thursday directed the state govt to inform it about action taken against the superintendents of police (SPs) posted in Gumla between 2018 and 2022 in the September 2018 minor girl missing case.Chandramuni Urain lodged an FIR in 2019 alleging that her minor daughter, then aged six, had gone missing from their Khora village house in September 2018. She filed a petition before the high court in September 2025, claiming that the police have failed to trace the child or make meaningful headway in the case despite the passage of several years since the disappearance. Her daughter could be a victim of human trafficking, she further alleged.A division bench of Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Sanjay Prasad, while hearing a habeas corpus petition, also asked the govt to submit report about the action taken against investigating officers (IOs) posted in Gumla during the period.The govt counsel informed the bench that the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Gumla has ordered the narco analysis test of main accused Sukhmani Urain at the directorate of forensic sciences (DFS) in Gujarat. The govt, subsequently, contacted the DFS, which fixed the test between August 3 and August 11. A special police team would escort Urain to Gujarat for the procedure, the counsel said.The high court ordered the govt to produce the test report of the accused during the next hearing scheduled on August 17.
