Mobile phone lands kidnappers in police custody

HYDRABAD:

The manager of a poultry farm was kidnapped in the largely peaceful Badin district of Sindh on April 13. But the kidnappers, who appeared to be novices, were caught in a raid on Friday after police traced their location with the help of a mobile phone they used to demand Rs20 million in ransom.

"It's the first incident of kidnapping in over a decade in Badin," ASP Ubaid Saad, who led the raid, told the media after recovering the manager Ghulam Nabi Kalmati, who hailed from Karachi, and arresting four suspects identified as Abdul Hakeem Nohrio, Abdul Latif Nohrio, Laung Nohrio, and Imtiaz Nohrio. ASP Saad disclosed that police traced the kidnappers in Chak No 15 by locating their mobile phone.

He added that four suspects were arrested but their three accomplices managed to escape during the raid on premises in an agricultural field. Police recovered two pistols and ammunition. The suspects and their accomplices have been booked on charges of kidnapping on the complaint of Ghulam Nabi Kalmati.

Kalmati told the police that he was tortured. According to him, he was kidnapped from the poultry farm. "I am an employee at the farm and could not meet the ransom demand of the kidnappers," he added.

Kidnapping incidents have been on the rise in Larkana and Sukkur divisions, but Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and Nawabshah divisions rarely witness such incidents.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 15^th, 2023.