Prompt action: Police bring kidnapped elderly back home within three days
Kidnappings in DHA likely to drop now that the group has been busted: CPLC.
Ashraf, 82, was kidnapped by a group of armed men from DHA Phase IV on September 4. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
An elderly man who was kidnapped for ransom by a group of kidnappers three days ago was safely recovered on Saturday evening after a successful raid in Nazimabad.
Ashraf, 82, was kidnapped by a group of armed men from DHA Phase IV on September 4. The abducted victim is also the maternal uncle of a Pakistan Navy official.
The kidnappers had demanded Rs10 million for his release but after some negotiations they brought down their demand to Rs1.5 million. On Thursday night, when the family was called to pay the ransom money in Ferozabad, Ashraf’s nephew, who works in the naval forces, went to pay the amount. There was an exchange of fire in which the kidnappers, Shaukat Rahimo and Daim Rahimo, were injured. The police arrested the two kidnappers, while the third companion, Ameer Hassan, was arrested on the information provided by the arrested suspects.
After attaining considerable information from the arrested suspects, the Citizens-Police Liasion Committee (CPLC) in collaboration with the Anti-Violent Crime Cell conducted a raid on Saturday evening at a residential apartment in Nazimabad No. 1 and recovered the victim safely. CPLC deputy director Najeeb Dana Wala, while talking to The Express Tribune, confirmed the recovery of the naval official’s uncle. “The victim’s hands and legs were tightened with a rope but thankfully he remained safe.”
In the raid, a teenage boy was also taken into custody. The investigators questioned him over his relationship with the kidnappers in the hope of nabbing to the mastermind of the gang. During the initial course of interrogation, the accused suspects revealed that they kidnapped a 14-year-old boy, Arif Sohail, from DHA on August 20, who was later released after the family paid Rs450,000 as ransom.
“This group of kidnappers have no links to any terrorists or political organisations,” explained Dana Wala. He said that the investigators believed that the group has been involved in other kidnapping for ransom cases in posh areas of the city, especially in DHA. “By busting this group, we believe that there would be a massive decrease in kidnapping cases.”
An official said that the arrested suspects were domestic workers of a certain Talpur family but the CPLC official denied these claims, by saying the suspects were running an autonomous group that had no links with anyone.
The official further added that one of the suspects, Shaukat, used to work as a driver at a Chinese firm in Karachi and he had used his firm’s car in the kidnapping.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2013.
An elderly man who was kidnapped for ransom by a group of kidnappers three days ago was safely recovered on Saturday evening after a successful raid in Nazimabad.
Ashraf, 82, was kidnapped by a group of armed men from DHA Phase IV on September 4. The abducted victim is also the maternal uncle of a Pakistan Navy official.
The kidnappers had demanded Rs10 million for his release but after some negotiations they brought down their demand to Rs1.5 million. On Thursday night, when the family was called to pay the ransom money in Ferozabad, Ashraf’s nephew, who works in the naval forces, went to pay the amount. There was an exchange of fire in which the kidnappers, Shaukat Rahimo and Daim Rahimo, were injured. The police arrested the two kidnappers, while the third companion, Ameer Hassan, was arrested on the information provided by the arrested suspects.
After attaining considerable information from the arrested suspects, the Citizens-Police Liasion Committee (CPLC) in collaboration with the Anti-Violent Crime Cell conducted a raid on Saturday evening at a residential apartment in Nazimabad No. 1 and recovered the victim safely. CPLC deputy director Najeeb Dana Wala, while talking to The Express Tribune, confirmed the recovery of the naval official’s uncle. “The victim’s hands and legs were tightened with a rope but thankfully he remained safe.”
In the raid, a teenage boy was also taken into custody. The investigators questioned him over his relationship with the kidnappers in the hope of nabbing to the mastermind of the gang. During the initial course of interrogation, the accused suspects revealed that they kidnapped a 14-year-old boy, Arif Sohail, from DHA on August 20, who was later released after the family paid Rs450,000 as ransom.
“This group of kidnappers have no links to any terrorists or political organisations,” explained Dana Wala. He said that the investigators believed that the group has been involved in other kidnapping for ransom cases in posh areas of the city, especially in DHA. “By busting this group, we believe that there would be a massive decrease in kidnapping cases.”
An official said that the arrested suspects were domestic workers of a certain Talpur family but the CPLC official denied these claims, by saying the suspects were running an autonomous group that had no links with anyone.
The official further added that one of the suspects, Shaukat, used to work as a driver at a Chinese firm in Karachi and he had used his firm’s car in the kidnapping.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2013.