September 05, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 04, 1429

KARACHI, Sept 4: A district and sessions court on Thursday directed the station house officer of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station to recover a 17-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped by her cousin and to produce her in court on Friday.

The father of the girl, Mohammad Maskeen, through his counsel Shahbaz Sahotra submitted an application to the court of district and sessions judge, central, stating that his nephew, Jahanzeb, with the help of his friends had kidnapped his daughter, Nadia, a student of Class X, from their native town in district Mansehra while she was on her way to school on July 22.

The applicant claimed that on Aug 28 he came to know that Jahanzeb along with associates Ali Jan, Sawar and others, had taken his daughter to Karachi and detained her in Umer Farooq Colony, in the limits of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station.

He said that he reached Karachi on Aug 31 and made efforts for the recovery of his daughter but to no avail and therefore had moved the court to help him out of this problem.

The application said that Jahanzeb wanted to marry Nadia but Mohammad Maskeen had opposed the matrimonial alliance. This opposition ultimately led to the kidnap of Nadia.

Kidnap for ransom case

The anti-terrorism court-II on Thursday declared two accused absconders in a kidnap for ransom case as the police told court that the accused, Zahid and Wahad, could not be traced.

According to the prosecution, Sheraz, along with the co-accused Sub-inspector Khadim Hussain Nizamani, Zahid and Wahad had allegedly kidnapped Nasir Hussain and Artaza Khan on June 17, 2006 from the limits of the City Courts police station and had forced them to sign some documents regarding the transfer of a property and demanded ransom for their release.

The police registered a case (FIR 44/05) against the accused under Section 365-A of the Pakistan Penal Code at the City Courts police station on the complaint of Ms Sakina Nasir. Sheraz and Khadim Hussain have been released on bail.