DARA ADAMKHEL, Nov 3: The administration of the Kohat frontier region has handed over a boy and a girl, who wanted to marry, to the officials of the Lahore police.

The boy, Afsar Khan Khattak, and the girl, Samar Idrees, were forcibly released from the custody of the Lahore Police on Friday by some tribesmen when a vehicle carrying them stopped at the Dara bazaar.

The administration later asked the tribal people to hand over those involved in getting the pair released from the Lahore police custody, otherwise their houses would be demolished.

The pair was arrested in connection with an FIR registered on Oct 21 with the Ravi police station, Lahore, by Haji Idrees, father of the girl, stating that his daughter was abducted by Afsar Khan Khattak. The Lahore police recovered the boy and the girl from Togh Bala village in Kohat.

The police was taking the pair to Punjab in a coach. When they stopped at the Dara bazaar to purchase some arms the pair started shouting, claiming that the police would kill them in a fake encounter. Some tribesmen forcibly got them released from the police custody and were reluctant to return them back.

The pair was handed over to the tribal administration on Saturday, after the administration mounted pressure on tribesmen and warned the tribal people to hand over Noor Afridi, Munsif Khan and others who were allegedly involved in the pair’s release within one week otherwise their houses would be demolished.