KARACHI: The infant kidnapped in Saddar’s Jahangir Park a couple of days ago was recovered after a raid near Kalapul, police said on Wednesday.

They added that one-and-a-half-year-old Sudais along with his parents had come to the park on Feb 2 where he went missing.

Subsequently, the Preedy police registered a kidnap case against an unidentified couple, which was seen in the closed-circuit television camera footage taking the child away from the park.

A special team of the police led by Inspectors Atiq Rehman and Sajjad Khan carried out an intelligence-based operation in Kalapul late on Tuesday night and arrested the couple and recovered the child safely.

The officer added that the police during the raid also recovered another boy from the couple’s house, who was also seen in the CCTV footage.

The IGP Sindh and the city police chief announced reward and appreciation certificates for the police party.

A senior officer said that the held couple identified as Shahid and Rukhsana claimed that they had found the infant boy abandoned in the park and took him along.

But the officer said that they had the CCTV footage, which clearly showed that the couple had abducted the child apparently for some ulterior motives.

The investigators decided to conduct the other recovered boy’s DNA test to ascertain as to whether he had also been kidnapped. Apparently the boy had no resemblance with the couple.

The officer said that the couple might have kidnapped the children for begging or selling purposes.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2020