Saved: Police bust kidnappers’ gang, rescue child

The driver Nasir took the boy to a vacated house where armed men already present there ushered him inside.

KARACHI:

An eight-year-old child was rescued from his kidnappers by the police on Tuesday. The law enforcers also claimed to have apprehended six suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping.

The child, ‘U’, was kidnapped from the Defence Housing Authority on Monday, while on his way home from school. The kidnappers had demanded Rs20 million as ransom from the child’s father.

The boy told the police that their driver, Nasir, had driven him to a vacated house where armed men, who were already present there, had ushered him inside.

According to CPLC officials, after obtaining the call records of the kidnappers, they had conducted a raid at a house in Neelum Colony from where they had managed to apprehend one of the suspects.  “Acting on information obtained from the suspects arrested earlier, we raided the vacant bungalow at Khayaban-e-Saher, DHA, where the child was being held hostage,” the CPLC deputy director, Najeeb Dana Wala, told The Express Tribune.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18^th, 2013.