LAHORE: Chuhng police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a kidnapper and recovered from his custody a three and a half years old girl who went missing from her Kibria Town residence three months ago.

According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, a police team raided a house in Kachi Kothi in Kasur, took Safdar into custody and recovered Malaika, daughter of Muhammad Aslam, from his custody.

According to the press release, Aslam had met Capital City Police Officer Chaudhry Shafique Ahmad a few days ago and complained that the police had failed to trace his daughter.

During interrogation, the suspect told the police he had kidnapped Malaika from outside her residence, took her to his village and changed her name as Sana.

Safdar said he had planned to get the girl married with his brother after a few years.

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