KARACHI: Kidnapped boy recovered

Published July 23, 2008

KARACHI, July 22: Police in the Site area arrested three accused in a kidnapping for ransom case and recovered a four-year-old boy on Tuesday, who was kidnapped for Rs4 million from Baldia Town.

Officials said following investigations into an FIR (147/2008) lodged with the Baldia police station on the complaint of Haji Mohammad Ali, grandfather of the kidnapped boy, Waqas, a couple of days ago, a police party traced the den of the accused near the New Sabzi Mandi, where they found the boy along with the accused Asad, Asghar and Khan Zeb.

Athar Rasheed Butt, SP Site Town said that the arrested suspects are residents of Malakand division.

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