RAWALPINDI, June 13: Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 Safdar Hussain Malik on Friday acquitted four persons accused of kidnapping a four-year-old girl for ransom after both parties reached a compromise.

Zafar Iqbal, a teacher of the girl, along with Hazrat Ali, Anwar Taj and Hukum Baz, kidnapped Nayyab to Kohat. He then called the girl’s family and demanded Rs2.5 million ransom for her release. However, the telephone number was recorded in the Customer Line Identification (CLI) installed at the girl’s house. This enabled the police to trace the men and recover the girl from their detention.

Meanwhile, the bailiff of the district and sessions judge, Dost Mohammad Khemta, recovered a person, Eugene John, from the illegal detention of Sadiqabad police station.

The court took the move of sending the bailiff after receiving a habeas corpus application from the brother of the victim, Robin John.

In his application, Robin, had contended that his brother had been in the illegal detention of Sadiqabad police station for three days.