Police still clueless about four missing girls

Cops arrest one suspect with help of call detail records

LAHORE:

Police are still clueless about the whereabouts of four minor girls who went missing in Hanjarwal area four days back.

Anam Irfan 10, and Kinza Irfan 11, are sisters. The other two girls identified as Ayesha 14, and Samreen 8, were also sisters and friends and neighbours to Anam and Kinza.

The girls had reportedly left their house to visit Orange Line Metro Train but did not return. The complainant Irfan Iftikhar registered a complaint before the police mentioning that his two daughters along with their two friends left the house to visit Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) but did not return home.

The family failed to find a trace of the girls.

“I believe they have been abducted by some suspects,” he shared his fear.

The complainant also shared a cell phone number that the girls were carrying with them.

Police have registered an FIR on his complaint but could not find a trace of the girls so far.

Police have opened the investigations keeping in view different angles.

“The cell phone is the only lead so far with the police,” shared an investigator.

He added that police had collected call detail records (CDRs) and were analysing the same.

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A suspect from lead from CDR has been taken into custody. “He is a young boy named Umar, a neighbour of the girls and might be a friend or peer,” he said.

Umar was in contact with the girls frequently before they went missing. He was the last person whom the girls contacted before disappearing under suspicious circumstances, he added.

He added that the girls had left their house in the evening at around 8:30 pm. The OLMT stops operating at 11:00 pm.

The last contact with Umar was made at 11:00 pm, he added. After the call, the girls hired a rickshaw. The rickshaw driver dropped them at the gate of EMI Society at around 12:00 pm. Police had also taken the driver into custody for interrogation.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4^th, 2021.