FAISALABAD, Nov 13: The mother of a child threatened to commit suicide in front of the DIG police office in a protest against the department’s failure to trace the boy even nine months after he was kidnapped.

Speaking to journalists here, Shahnaz Akhtar, who resides at Aminabad No 2, revealed that armed men had kidnapped his son Ali Arslan, 12, and took away valuables from her house on Jan 26, 2005.

She said the intruders demanded a ransom of Rs5 million and later reduced it to Rs2 million, which was arranged by the family.

The dejected woman cried out against the police which, she said, had miserably failed to trace her son. She said she would end her life in front of the DIG police office if her son was not recovered within a few days.