VEHARI, Nov 7: The Karampur police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested another kidnapper-cum-murderer of an eight-year old boy.

Saddar DSP Malik Rafiq Khokhar told this correspondent as an inquiry officer that

Iqbal had been arrested on Monday night and now only one accomplice, Ashraf, was at large.

He said two families had claimed that the murdered boy was their son. One of them belonged to Faisalabad where Ghulam Mustafa claimed that his seven-year old son Ibrahim had been kidnapped for ransom on Sept 11 and later killed by the culprits.

The Vehari police had claimed that they had recovered the body from a Sui gas pipeline near the canal in Chichawatni.

The DSP said he had yet to ascertain about the actual parents as Abdul Latif had earlier claimed that the body was of his son which they had collected from the police station after identification. The child has already been laid to rest.

Karampur police station SHO Saeed Lodhi said the family from Faisalabad could get the body only after proper identification.

He said the police were probing this aspect as well.