Citizens help recover ‘abducted’ minor girl

Police reached the site when passersby notified them of a man with a distressed child

KARACHI: A minor girl who went missing from the Gulshan-e-Maymar area on Thursday evening was recovered by Ferozabad Police later that night. The police also arrested the suspected kidnapper. A kidnapping case had earlier been registered on behalf of the girl’s father.

According to Ferozabad SHO Inspector Aurangzeb Khattak, passersby in the Sindhi Muslim Society area informed the police of a man standing outside a tea shop with a little girl after the child’s cries made them suspicious.

Police arrived at the site and questioned the man. When he failed to answer their questions, the cops arrested the man.

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Speaking to The Express Tribune, Khattak said that when the suspect, Talha Karim, was brought to the police station, it was revealed that the child was five-year-old Asma, daughter of Muhammad Moosa, who had been abducted the same evening from Gulshan-e-Maymar. The SHO told this correspondent that CCTV footage of the area showed the suspect riding a motorcycle with Asma sitting in the front.

Karim is also a resident of Gulshan-e-Maymar and has been giving contradictory statements regarding the incident, added the SHO.

The police said that the arrested suspect was handed over to Gulshan-e-Maymar Police as Asma was abducted from their jurisdiction. The case will be handled by the relevant police station, they said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28^th, 2019.