SUKKUR: Police on Sunday claimed to have saved three women, who were lured into a honey-trap set by criminals in riverine area of Ghauspur and came all the way from Lahore along with two minor children, before they fell into the outlaws’ hands.

A spokesman for Kandhkot SSP told local reporters that the women who gave their names as Noor Begum, Zubeda Bibi, Rasoola Bibi and the children Wasif Ali and Falak were residents of Deepal Pur in Lahore. They came into contact with the outlaws’ gang through unknown an cell-phone number and were invited by them to Ghauspur riverian area, he said.

He said that when women moved to the road leading into the riverian area, policemen deployed at the pickets nearby stopped them.

They showed police the cell-phone number through which the criminals were in contact with them. When police called on the number, the criminals switched off their phones, he said.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2020