Father booked for fake claim of child’s abduction

The police obtain Jan’s call records to trace the callers and discover the calls were fake

ABBOTTABAD: In a dramatic move, the Abbottabad police have arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping his own son and demanded Rs10 million from his family to release him.

Zahir Jan told the Mirpur police that his son, Muzammil, had allegedly been abducted by unidentified people from outside his home and now, he was recovering calls from unidentified callers demanding a ransom of Rs10 million to secure his release.

In response to his complaint, Abbottabad SP Qamar Hayat constituted three police teams, including counter-terrorism department (CTD) officials to investigate the case and to recover the boy.

The police obtained Jan’s call records to trace the callers and discovered that the calls were fake. They also managed to recover the boy from the house of Jan’s brother-in-law.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 13^th, 2019.