Slow response: Police clueless about three kidnapped girls

Shalimar police take eight days to register kidnapping case

ISLAMABAD: Police have failed to locate three teenage girls who were allegedly kidnapped in three separate incidents more than a week ago.

In the first incident, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons in Sector F-10/2 on May 8. The girl’s father told the police that she went to a nearby market but did not return home. Though the family reported the incident to the police the same day, the Shalimar police registered a kidnapping case against unidentified persons on May 16.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Saleem Raza, who is investigating the case, claimed that the police were working on recovering the girl. “In order to locate her, we are checking and investigating all of her mobile phone contacts,” he said.

The family are domestic workers and live in quarters at their employer’s house in F-10/2.

Another police official claimed that the girl may have eloped.

In another case, the Ramna police booked three persons for allegedly kidnapping a 16-year-old girl from her house in a slum in Sector G-11 on May 14. The police registered a case against Sunny, Abu Zar and Shehnaz Bibi on May 16, but have not yet recovered the girl yet.

A member of the victim’s family told The Express Tribune that the suspects have taken the girl to Khanewal.

ASI Burhanuddin, the investigation officer of the case, claimed that the girl was 22-years-old, but the FIR, registered by Burhanuddin himself, states her age as 16. He also claimed that the suspects were relatives of the girl and that she went with them of her own free will.

In the third case, a teenage girl went missing from her house in the Pindorian area on May 12. On the complaint of the victim’s family, on May 16 the police registered a case against a man and a woman from the same neighbourhood.

The police have made no headway in location the girl.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21^st, 2016.