RAHIM YAR KHAN/BAHAWALPUR: Police claimed to have recovered the two minor sons of a doctor who were kidnapped on their way to school on Friday morning in Khanpur.

District Police Officer Rizwan Umar Gondal told the media on Saturday that the two minor sons of Dr Hassan Mehmood, the former medical superintendent of Khanpur Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, who were kidnapped while going to school in a car driven by their driver, by unidentified armed men, had been recovered by police.

According to the DPO, the boys -- Shayaan (11) and Subhan (6) -- were traced and recovered with the coordination of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA),

Bahawalpur, Crime Scene Unit, Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) units.

Without sharing detail of the kidnappers with the media, the DPO said the boys had been reunited with their family.

Police sources, however, say that the four suspects involved in the kidnapping had also been arrested.

Meanwhile, the police also claimed to have recovered a 16-year-old kidnapped boy from the kacha area dacoits.

The boy, Nasir, was kidnapped a few days ago allegedly by the dacoits of Kacha area when he was working in wheat fields near Basti Jhuk of Kacha Rojhan in Bhong police limits.

As per police sources, the children’s recovery was made by special police team constituted by Regional Police Officer Rai Babar Saeed after the issue was raised in the on-going session of the National Assembly by MNA Fayyaz Ahmed.

The four arrested suspects were taken to Rahim Yar Khan by a police party for interrogation, the sources added.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2023