LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 20: A notorious outlaw and ringleader of a gang of kidnappers, Arsala Khan, has been killed in the Sheen Ghar area, according to the police.

An official in the Mulazai police station of Tank district said that the police received information on Thursday that a body was lying in the Sheen Ghar area near Umarkhel. A police party rushed to the spot and took into possession the body from the hideout of a proclaimed offender, Abdul Hamid, said an official.

According to him, a local elder, Malik Muhammad Ayub, later recognised the dead as Arsala Khan. He had received a single fatal bullet in his chest.

Born in Paakhel, a small hamlet situated in the arduous mountains of Frontier Region Lakki Marwat, Arsala Khan was once conferred a title of ‘Chief of Bhetanni.’ The Paakhel village has a population of 150 to 200 people.

But later he got involved in abducting Marwat tribesmen after developing enmity with one Gul Jamal and another outlaw Imran alias Naray. He kidnapped more than a dozen people, including two women of the Marwat tribe, and also killed nearly three of them, including a woman.

To take revenge from the Naray group, Arsala Khan started kidnapping the Marwats.