FAISALABAD, June 15: Unknown abductors kidnapped the young son of a local industrialist and demanded Rs50 million ransom for his release here on Tuesday night. Farhatullah (24) was on way from his house to a nearby market by a car (FDO-14) when some armed men kidnapped him. The parents informed the police about the disappearance of their son. Both the police and relatives started tracing the boy, but their efforts proved futile.

Later, the kidnappers contacted Saadullah, the father of Farhatullah, and demanded Rs50 million for the release of his son. Senior police officials rushed to the house of Saadullah when the matter was immediately brought to the notice of police. Police were trying to find the clue to abductors.

Meanwhile, the Faisalabad and Jhang police have failed to find any clue to outlaws who had kidnapped Suleman Ahmed and released him after receiving Rs10 million ransom despite the passage of four days.

However, investigators gave out that abductors had freed the boy in Muslim Town, a posh locality of Faisalabad, after getting the ransom amount in a tribal area of the NWFP.

Insiders revealed that the police was trying to shelve the matter to save its image and what it claimed to protect the parents of Suleman.

They said that relatives of Suleman were being asked to submit an application before the police that they were no more interested in pursuing the case.

Requesting anonymity, a Jhang police official said that special teams of the Faisalabad and Jhang police did succeed in tracing one of the callers in Faisalabad, but he slipped away after dodging them in Muslim Town on Sargodha Road.

Four investigation teams constituted by Faisalabad DIG Sajjad Ahmed also failed to make any headway in the preliminary progress and were waiting for the statement from Suleman.

BOOKED: A man was booked for kidnapping his two-year-old daughter here on Wednesday.