THATTA, July 18: The district and sessions Judge of Thatta, Dr Qamaruddin Bohra, while handing over a girl to her parents on Friday, ordered registration of a case against her kidnapper.

Khuda Bux alias Khudoo and Ms Popari, the parents of the victim girl, after being traced out by the Thatta police, under the directives of district and sessions court, disclosed that their daughter, Mehmooda, 7, had been missing from their residence at Phulelli, Hyderabad since March 19, 2003.

The parents and the girl who had earlier been sent to the Edhi Child Home by the said court, recognized each other and the judge after verification of facts entrusted the girl to her parents, ordering registration of a kidnapping case against Haji Allah Rakhio Solangi, a beggar by profession.

Sub-inspector Khan Mohammad Shar of the Makli police station while in search of the said accused, Haji Allah Rakhio, also involved in another FIR of the abduction of two girls, Laila and Asiya, spotted him begging with Mehmooda at Bukera.

The police produced the accused and the girl in the court of district and sessions Judge Thatta on July 9, 2003, where the girl refused to recognize the accused as her father.—BoC