Providing the data, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is also the state Home Minister, said that "attempts to show that 70 women were going missing in Maharashtra daily and it was unsafe for them" were ill-founded.
According to data from the Union home ministry tabled in Parliament last week, 10,61,648 women above 18 years and 2,51,430 minor girls, went missing from across the country between 2019 and 2021