LAKKI MARWAT, Jan 16: A girl was kidnapped at gunpoint by three brothers from her house in the Wanda Aurangzeb village in the Dadiwala police area, said a police official on Wednesday.

The accused, Habibullah, Zaitullah and Ismail, sons of Shamsher, resident of the Kara Nawerkhel village, who were armed, entered the house of Din Mohammad and took away his daughter, Hajra Bibi, the official said.

Quoting an FIR lodged by Din Mohammad, the official said one of the accused, Habibullah, who had reportedly developed illicit relations with the girl, kidnapped her with the help of his brothers.

The Dadiwala police have registered a case under sections 365B, 497 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code against the accused.

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