BAHAWALPUR: Police claim to have recovered a 10-year-old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped for ransom from outside his house around a fortnight ago, arresting three suspect involved in the crime. District Police Officer (DPO) Aibadat Nisar on Saturday told a press conference at the district police lines here that Hashir Shehbaz (10), son of Shehbaz, a businessman and a resident of Hashim Garden, had gone missing on March 25. The DPO said later the boy’s father received a phone call from an unidentified person who demanded Rs10 million ransom form him for his son’s release. He said that on Shehbaz’s complaint, Cantonment police registered a kidnap for ransom case against the unidentified caller and launched investigations. The DPO formed a police team comprising station house officers (SHOs) of Baghdadul Jadid, Cantonment and Civil Lines police stations for safe recovery of the boy.
The police teams on a tip-off conducted a raid on a house in Multan, from where the boy was recovered and three suspects, identified as Saif Ali, Muhammad Ashfaq and Owais, were arrested and brought to Bahawalpur. The DPO also produced the recovered boy before the media. ARRESTED: The Gailiwala police in Lodhran district claimed to have arrested a man for allegedly raping and killing his minor nephew more than two months ago at Shairpur village. According to Lodhran district police, three and a half years old Umer, son of Khalil Ahmed, had gone missing while he was playing outside his house on Feb 25. After failing to find the boy, Khalil reported the matter to Gailianwala police.
The police on Feb 26 registered an FIR (No.80/22) under section 363 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Khalil. The police said that during investigation, they detained the complainant’s brother Luqman over suspicion, who during interrogation confessed to have raped his minor nephew in fields near the village. The suspect told police that the minor got severely injured because of the brutality and later succumbed to his injuries. He said that he dumped the victim’s body into a manhole in the village. The police have recovered the mutilated body of the child from the manhole and added Section 302 of the PPC to the FIR.
(Daily Dawn)
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