Abduction case: Police bring back boy, teenage tutor from Jaranwala

Teenage teacher claims her family was not allowing her to study further

LAHORE:

Police have detained a woman tutor who had left the city along with her 12-year-old student.

The boy’s mother told the police that the elders of both families had decided that the complaint of kidnapping would be withdrawn and the two would be married after boy completes his education and gets employed.

DSP Nawankot Omar Farooq Baloch told the Express Tribune that the police received a complaint from a citizen, Aslam, on October 15 that his 12-year-old son had gone for tuition near his house, but had not returned. He student of fifth grade had been taking private tuition from the teacher for two years.

During the investigation, it was revealed that the tutor had left her home two days before the incident but returned after a couple of days. When the boy went for tuition on October 15, she took him with her to bring some goods from a market but did not return home.

DSP Omar Farooq said the teacher's neighbour and closest friend told the police that she was very upset because her parents used to scold her all the time. On October 13, the neighbour, who had five children, took her to her hometown Sharaqpur and suggested that she marry her husband so that they could live together.

The teacher refused to marry her husband and returned home two days later.

After the student went missing, the police traced the tutor’s location from a mobile phone and found out that she had been in Jaranwala for 13 days.

On October 29, investigation in-change Qamar Sajid carried out a raid with the help of local police and arrested the tutor and rescued the boy from Jani Mor area.

When the teacher was interrogated after being brought to Lahore, she revealed that she was 18 years old and had done matriculation. She said she wanted to study further but her family was not allowing her to do so.

On October 15, she took Rs2,000 from her house and left early in the morning along with her student. She also took her sister's mobile phone with her.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2^nd, 2020.