PESHAWAR, Nov 1: The additional district and sessions judge, Shehbar Khan, on Saturday granted bail to a person accused in the kidnapping case of a former MNA’s grandson.
The accused-applicant, Tilla Mohammad, was arrested on charges of the kidnapping of Amjid Faraz, grandson of former MNA from Mohmand Agency, Haji Bahroz Khan.
The court directed that the accused should be released after furnishing two sureties of Rs 300,000 each.
An FIR was registered with the Daudzai police station by Sarfaraz Khan, father of the kidnapped boy, on Oct 21. The complainant stated that his son had gone to his marble factory in his car but did not return.
He had charged Tilla Mohammad and some of his relatives with the crime. Initially, the complainant claimed that the boy was kept in illegal confinement. Later on, he charged, the accused of abducting the boy for ransom.
He alleged that they were having a money dispute of about Rs 20 million.
Advocates Asadullah Chamkani and Mamrez Khan appeared for the applicant and argued that he was falsely implicated in the case. They produced a letter written by a person named Noor Rehman to the administration of Mohmand Agency, in which he had accepted the responsibility of taking away the boy for settling his monetary dispute with Haji Bahroz and his family.
The counsel argued that from the letter it was evident that the boy was abducted by Noor Rehman and not by Tilla Mohammad. They pointed out that Tilla Mohammad was neither a relative nor an acquaintance of Noor Rehman. They added that he could not be hold responsible for the deeds of Noor Rehman.
They argued that the abducted person had yet to be recovered and once he was recovered it would be clear who had abducted him.
HELD: Police on Saturday arrested six car-washers from outside the building of an insurance company from where a Suzuki car was stolen on Friday evening.
This was for the second time in the span of two months that poor car-washers had been detained by the West Cantt police, despite the fact that no FIR was registered against them, sources said.
According to reports, Mohammad Soaib parked his car (RIV 7794) outside the building of the State Life of Pakistan and walked into the building for some reason. When he returned, he could not find his car at the place where he had parked it, eye witnesses said.
To show their efficiency, the police detained poor car-washers and in order to elicit information beat them up in the lock-up.
When contacted, police officials said when the car-washers got hold of the car key to clean it from inside, they made its duplicate and gave it to some car-lifters, who later stole the car.
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