Bandits kidnap sessions judges

Published December 4, 2004

SHIKARPUR, Dec 3: Three judges were kidnapped by bandits from the Ratodero-Ghari Yasin road near the Ibn Odho village in the Dakhan area on Friday night.

A police picket got one of them released after an encounter with the outlaws near Thariri.

THE JUDGES ARE: First sessions judge Farooq Ahmad Channa, of Nawabshah; second sessions judge Abdul Wahab, of Ghotki; and third sessions judge, Aftab Ahmad Bughio, of Moro; all posted in Shikarpur. They were returning in an official car from Larkana where Mr Bughio (who was freed) had gone for a medical check-up, when a group of eight bandits intercepted their vehicle and forced the judges to accompany them.

There was no information about the two judges till late night.

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