MIRPURKHAS: The women police of Mirpurkhas have recovered a 14-year-old girl in an action carried out in Thatta, according to SHO Moomal Leghari.

The girl had gone missing from her residence in the Mir Ka Plot locality on March 18 and her mother had lodged a complaint at the women police station against unknown kidnappers.

The women police launched a hunt for the kidnappers and during the investigation they received information about her possible whereabouts. They came to know that the girl had been taken to a particular house in Thatta and the information proved correct when a women police party proceeded there and found the girl present in the house. She was taken into custody and safely brought to her home in the Mir Ka Plot locality. However, no one was arrested for the alleged kidnapping.

SHO Leghari did not share any other details of the alleged kidnapping or kidnappers with the media.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2022

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