Three children used as drug mules rescued
Civil Lines police on Thursday handed over the children to the Child Protection Bureau of Punjab
Civil Lines police on Thursday handed over the children to the Child Protection Bureau of Punjab. PHOTO: FILE
RAWALPINDI:
Used as drug mules, kidnapped, and locked in chains by bad cops…the ordeal of three children ended only after they were recovered by police on Wednesday evening from Dheri Hassanabad.
Civil Lines police on Thursday handed over three children, aged between six to nine years, to the Child Protection Bureau of Punjab.
Tariqabad police post in-charge SI Naveed Ahmed was on patrol on Wednesday when he received a tip-off from an informant that Akhtar, a mechanic, had locked up three children in a rented house.
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Acting on the tip-off, the police raided the house near Malang CNG station in Dheri Hassanabad and recovered Khan Dad, Ghulam Dad, and Fariha Pasroor. Officials added that the children had been bound in chains.
The children, who seemed to be of Afghan origin, told police in their broken Urdu, that a man had given them a packet of hashish, weighing a kilogramme, in Peshawar and put them on a Rawalpindi-bound bus on May 2.
Akhtar, 8-year-old Khan Dad said, had caught them and locked them up in the house. Dad further told police that they were then handed over to four men Sheikh Azhar, Qamar Butt, Ahsan, and Haji Sajid who took their hashish packet away.
A police official said that Azhar was a constable in Rawalpindi police and had been transferred to Punjab constabulary of the regional police officer a while back and was later dismissed from service for his truancy. Butt, Ahsan, and Sajid are also said to be cops.
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The children will be presented before a magistrate today to record their statement.
Meanwhile, Civil Lines SHO Mian Imran said they were raiding known hideouts of the men.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2017.
Used as drug mules, kidnapped, and locked in chains by bad cops…the ordeal of three children ended only after they were recovered by police on Wednesday evening from Dheri Hassanabad.
Civil Lines police on Thursday handed over three children, aged between six to nine years, to the Child Protection Bureau of Punjab.
Tariqabad police post in-charge SI Naveed Ahmed was on patrol on Wednesday when he received a tip-off from an informant that Akhtar, a mechanic, had locked up three children in a rented house.
New home: 14 homeless children rescued last week
Acting on the tip-off, the police raided the house near Malang CNG station in Dheri Hassanabad and recovered Khan Dad, Ghulam Dad, and Fariha Pasroor. Officials added that the children had been bound in chains.
The children, who seemed to be of Afghan origin, told police in their broken Urdu, that a man had given them a packet of hashish, weighing a kilogramme, in Peshawar and put them on a Rawalpindi-bound bus on May 2.
Akhtar, 8-year-old Khan Dad said, had caught them and locked them up in the house. Dad further told police that they were then handed over to four men Sheikh Azhar, Qamar Butt, Ahsan, and Haji Sajid who took their hashish packet away.
A police official said that Azhar was a constable in Rawalpindi police and had been transferred to Punjab constabulary of the regional police officer a while back and was later dismissed from service for his truancy. Butt, Ahsan, and Sajid are also said to be cops.
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The children will be presented before a magistrate today to record their statement.
Meanwhile, Civil Lines SHO Mian Imran said they were raiding known hideouts of the men.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2017.