A gang of eight women, involved in kidnapping young children, was busted within the limits of Mandira police station.
Sources said the gang members used to break into the houses and commit crimes on the pretext of begging. The arrested gang members disclosed that they would sell the kidnapped children to the begging gangs.
According to police, the suspects tried to abduct a five-month-old child from a house in Mandira and the locals caught the women after hearing the commotion raised by the child’s mother.
Later, police were called to the scene and all the gang members were arrested. The arrested suspects include Amina, Shanad, Ain Bibi, Malaika, Chanda, Kajal, Nosheen and Nighat.
The police said that the suspects accompanied with them an underage girl about whom an inquiry is being conducted.
According to the preliminary investigations, the women used to sell young children to beggar gangs after kidnapping them.
Ghulam Nabi, a resident of Mandira, said that he lived together with his brother Noor Hassan, his sister-in-law Hajira and their three children in Five Marla Scheme, Mandira.
“On April 24 at 5pm, my sister-in-law was alone at home and there was a knock at the door. When she opened the door, eight women were standing outside in the street with a young girl. They asked my sister-in-law for water to drink, at which she went inside to fetch water from the house. Meanwhile, all the women suddenly entered the house and started running away carrying my five-month-old nephew,” the complainant said.
“My sister-in-law raised commotion at which the neighbours gathered and chased and eventually caught the women and informed the police. The police reached the spot and arrested all the women,” he added.
On Ghulam Nabi’s complaint, the police registered case crime No. 323 of 2023 against the eight suspects for attempting to abduct the young child under various provisions including attempted abduction.
A police spokesperson said that expert investigation officers were interrogating the gang of women abductors while CPO Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani was supervising the investigation.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2023.
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