TOBA TEK SINGH: The Gojra city police registered a case of alleged kidnapping of two orphan sisters on Wednesday after a delay of about six months against five people including a woman.

Tasleem Bibi, widow of Bashir Ahmad, of Chak 43/15 L (Mian Channu), Khanewal, told police in her FIR that on Aug 28 she and her two daughters Kausar Perveen, 12, and Nasreen Bibi, 7, were waiting for bus near Gojra bypass road to go to Sheikhupura to see her brother when Sarwar, Amer, Asghar, Shakir and Sughra Bibi, all belonging to a gypsy family of Chak 65 JB, Dijkot (Faisalabad) came by a car and bundled her both daughters into their car and fled.

She said that the suspects were involved in selling minor girls. She said she contacted the Gojra city police the same day but they did not register an FIR. She said police arrested one of the suspects but later set him free. She said she filed a writ petition against police before the Lahore High Court and police registered a case after she filed the petition.

DPO’s spokesperson Attaullah claimed that the complainant did visit the police station six months ago but she did not give any application and then disappeared. He added that she filed petition before the LHC and two SHOs of Thikriwala and Dijkot police stations of Faisalabad district and SHO of Gojra city police station had been appearing before LHC in her petition and now when she gave a written application to Gojra city police station, the case had been registered and police were conducting raids to recover her daughters.

RAID: A health department team led by Kamalia assistant commissioner Rao Tasleem Akhtar raided a medical store on Zia Road at Kamalia and recovered medicines being sold to the addicts. The team sealed the store and handed over its owner Naveed Shahzad to Kamalia city police.

Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2019