Caught red-handed: Four alleged kidnappers remanded by ATC

The police presented suspects Qari Azizullah, Rais Khan, Noshad Khan and Haleema, before the ATC under tight security.

KARACHI:

An anti-terrorism court remanded on Saturday four suspects allegedly involved in a kidnapping case to police custody for a week. The eight-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped by his neighbour.

The police presented four suspects, Qari Azizullah, Rais Khan, Noshad Khan and Haleema, before the ATC under tight security. According to the prosecution, the suspects had demanded Rs100,000 as ransom from the parents of the abducted child, Irfanullah Khan. They had threatened to kill Irfan in case he failed to pay.

The case was registered on the complaint of the child’s parents, who told the police that the accused had kidnapped him within the remits of Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police station on December 23, 2013. A police team had conducted the operation, rescued the eight-year-old and also managed to arrest all of the accused on January 3.

A case, FIR No. 03/14, was registered under sections 365-A (kidnapping for ransom) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, at the Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police station. 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2014.