Stolen from hospital: Three years old boy found from greenbelt in Rawalpindi

Boy went missing from Military Hospital, Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: RA Bazaar police here on Sunday found a three-year-old boy from a greenbelt near Churr Chowk.

The boy went missing from the Military Hospital here on Friday.

According to available details, a military officer on Sunday spotted the boy crying at a greenbelt in Lane No 7 Churr Chowk and handed over the boy to the area police.

The boy with his mother had earlier come from Taxila to the Military Hospital for medical checkup.

The mother of the child told RA Bazaar police that some unidentified person had taken away her son from the hospital.

The police had registered a kidnapping case against the unidentified person.

The police reunited the missing child with his parents.

According to the police, Brigadier Sakhawat was passing through
Lane No 7 near Churr Chowk at Peshawar Road where he spotted a child weeping bitterly at a greenbelt.

He immediately picked the child and contacted Westridge Police Station officials.

The police told the brigadier that the child was kidnapped from the limits of RA Bazaar Police Station where a case was registered.

The army officer then rushed to the RA Bazaar Police Station and handed over the child to the police.

Cantonment Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Abdul Rehman said according to reports the suspected kidnapper was carrying the child at Lane Number 7 where some people tried to stop him because of his suspicious movement. However, the man left the child on the greenbelt and ran away.

Then the army officer picked up the child and handed him over to the police, the DSP said.

He said that father of the child was a rickshaw driver.

“We are tracing the kidnapper from the CCTV footage obtained and will arrest him soon,” the DSP said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 1^st, 2016.