OKARA, Feb 2: The body of a minor boy, who was kidnapped for ransom, was recovered while police also arrested the killer in Mustafaabad here on Monday.

Reports said accused

Tanvir had kidnapped six-year-old Imran of the same locality and demanded Rs500,000 as ransom from his father Muhammad Sadiq. Later, an amount of Rs250,000 was settled between the kidnapper and Sadiq for the release of Imran.

Sadiq reached the designated place near Tabrook with the ransom amount, but the kidnapper did not turn up.

Instead the accused murdered Imran, wrapped his body in a sack and was on way to the Jan-i-Mula graveyard when the area people suspected some wrongdoings. Sensing some danger, the accused brought back the sack to his house.

In the meantime, someone informed the police who raided the house of the accused, arrested him and also recovered the body of Imran.

Afterwards, hundreds of residents blocked GT Road, burnt tyres and demanded the execution of the kidnapper-cum-murderer.

A-Division SHO Tariq Awan and B-Division SHO Muhammad Zaman got the traffic restored after assuring the protesters that police would immediately register a murder case against the accused.

It is learnt that the accused committed the heinous crime to fulfill the demands of his lover.

PROTEST CAMP: Scores of activists of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s youth wing set up a protest camp at the district courts complex here on Monday.

A large number of leaders and workers of the party, including MPA Mian Yawar Zaman, secretary Syed Zahid Gilani, youth wing president Mirza Naeem Baig and bar secretary-general Ghulam Mustafa Sadiq, visited the protest camp.

The protesters displayed banners inscribed with slogans against the Provisional Constitution Order-judges and baseless cases against the Nawaz League leadership.