KASUR, May 20: Phoolnagar police on Monday arrested a faith healer in an alleged kidnap case.

According to an FIR, a widow from Lahore visited faith healer Baba Tufail for a solutions to her ‘spiritual issues’.

Tufail asked the lady to donate some gifts to the River Ravi near Head Baloki.

The faith healer sent woman’s son Adnan, 26, to the river along with his follower, Akhtar.

Akhtar returned alone and claimed that Adnan had drowned in the river.

The police registered a case on the complaint of his mother against the faith healer.

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