DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 4: The Bosan gang kidnappers released the Parco employees and other people from Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh gradually and only after taking Rs7 million to Rs8 million ransom through mediators.

While the highly-equipped patrol van of Parco was still in the possession of the kidnappers, sources told Dawn on Thursday.

The Bosan gang, which is notorious for kidnap for ransom cases, had kidnapped three Parco employees — Saeed, Akram and Ehsan — and other people, Amir, Muzzamil, Sajjad, Haider and Rana Zulfiqar from Dera Ghazi Khan and 10-year-old Abu Bakr from Muzaffargarh. Later, they contacted their families and relatives who knocked at the police doors for help.

Sources alleged that the Bosan gang, also known as Nukani gang, had warned the higher authorities of the district administration and police against taking any action.

It is learnt that mediators Ramzan Jarh, the PML additional secretary-general in DGK, Muhammad Ali Dasti, a businessman, contractor Zeeshan Leghari and landlord Abdullah Jarh have brokered the release of the eight people.

Some of the families suspected that there might be some nexus between police officers, mediators and the gang because the law enforcers were reluctant to interrogate the brokers as to why they had handed over the ransom to the gang.

It is pertinent to mention that the gang thrives in the area on the border of Punjab and Balochistan and allegedly enjoys patronage of some influential people.

Earlier, the gang, headed by Mureed Nukani, was active in the riverine areas of Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur. The members of the Bosan gang from Muzaffargarh were originally small farmers initially involved in petty cattle thefts. The chieftain was a common tribal man who lived in Gorchani Tuman of Rajanpur.

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