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Vishal

Episode 2: The Search

Vishal

BBC Studios

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8529 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A search for the missing child swings into action - and police want to talk to his father.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We focus on the part of the internet that most people don't know about.

0:05.0

It's called the dark web.

0:06.0

Undercover in the furthest corners of the dark web,

0:10.0

US special agents are on a mission to locate and rescue children from abuse.

0:16.0

Move in now.

0:17.0

Police!

0:18.0

From the BBC World Service, World of Secrets, the darkest web follows their shocking investigations.

0:24.8

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get to your BBC podcasts.

0:30.7

Well, while the world fixed its eyes on St Paul's last Wednesday for one family in London,

0:35.2

Royal Wedding Day turned into a nightmare.

0:38.3

When a child goes missing in a big city like London, a system of procedures and plans goes into action.

0:45.7

Like a wave travelling outwards from the centre, the police begin a search.

0:50.6

It starts at the spot where the child was last seen, and it expands incrementally.

0:55.0

Eight-year-old Vishal Mirotra disappeared in Putney while shopping with his nanny and sister.

1:00.0

He's not been seen since.

1:01.0

The media issue appealed to the public, asking them to keep an eye out and report anything they may have seen.

1:07.0

At a press conference, Vishal's father, Mr. Vishandah Mirotra,

1:12.3

describes his son as a happy, clever boy who wouldn't dream of running away.

1:17.1

On the outside, things move quickly and with precision.

1:20.9

But if you have the misfortune to be the family at the centre of it all,

1:25.1

things feel very different.

1:27.9

Time slows and blurs, and every moment they're gone is deep physical pain.

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