Girl recovered: Police nab child kidnapper
The accused woman told the family it was her daughter and she wanted to sell her
Handing them over, magistrate directs parents not to subject them to violent behaviour. PHOTO: EXPRESS
PESHAWAR:
Police on Sunday arrested a woman on charges of kidnapping a three-year-old girl from Qazi Kalay area of Faqirabad police station. DSP Tahir Dawar told The Express Tribune that three-year-old Samina went missing from Qazi Kalay area on January 13. Her father Zakir Ali, a taxi driver, lodged an FIR with the local police station but every effort to locate her failed initially. “Today we received a tip off about a woman in Tehkal area who had been spotted trying to soothe a crying child. We reached there and took the woman into custody,” he added. The child was kidnapped and sold to a childless couple in Tehkal. The accused woman told the family it was her daughter and she wanted to sell her, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2017.
Police on Sunday arrested a woman on charges of kidnapping a three-year-old girl from Qazi Kalay area of Faqirabad police station. DSP Tahir Dawar told The Express Tribune that three-year-old Samina went missing from Qazi Kalay area on January 13. Her father Zakir Ali, a taxi driver, lodged an FIR with the local police station but every effort to locate her failed initially. “Today we received a tip off about a woman in Tehkal area who had been spotted trying to soothe a crying child. We reached there and took the woman into custody,” he added. The child was kidnapped and sold to a childless couple in Tehkal. The accused woman told the family it was her daughter and she wanted to sell her, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2017.