Ministry of Women and Child Development should not distrust the Delhi Police, observed Delhi High Court while directing the ministry to handover the complete data on missing children by Wednesday noon. The court was of the opinion that how the ministry would serve the public interest by withholding the data from the police. "The task of tracking missing children essentially falls on the security agencies in the country. Delhi Police is investigating a large number of such complaints. The data available with the ministry will be invaluable assistance to the police in performing its task," observed Justice S Muralidhar and Justice IS Mehta. "It is the duty of the MWCD to cooperate with the Delhi Police in ensuring that the missing children of this country are located at the earliest." In the previous hearing, the high court expressed its disappointment with the ministry when the police told the court that they still have not received complete data of missing children for the trial run of the facial recognition software. The court has been hearing the matter for the last two decades. The ministry, which has several time expressed its reservation on sharing the data, told the court that its portal - Track Child - is used across the country as a single platform to search the missing kids. "The court should instead ask the police to share the software with the ministry as most of the stakeholders are not on ZIPNET. Transferring the data to the police is a short term solution but not a permanent one," the court was told. The ministry also said it has decided to get the software from the same vendor and has even obtained approval from the finance department. To this, the court said when the police has already procured the software why additional money is being spent on the same software when the police is ready to share with all the agencies concerned.