MULTAN, March 20: The Lahore Model Town CIA staff reportedly took away valuables from a house in Shujabad on failure to recover an 'abducted' woman on Saturday.

It is learnt that a CIA party headed by ASI Akram, accompanied by complainant of a case (120/2004) registered under Hudood Ordinance, raided a house in Halal Waja village of Shujabad.

The police wanted to locate Ayesha Hayee who had allegedly been kidnapped by Zulfiqar of the village. When the law enforcers could neither find the abducted woman nor her kidnapper, they ransacked the house and beat up the women, one of them pregnant.

Zulfiqar's family alleged that the police had 'kidnapped' two girls, Saira, 7, and Uzma, 5, besides a tractor, a pick-up, a motorcycle and gold jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

They claimed that they did not know the whereabouts of Zulfiqar and Ayesha who, according to them, had contracted marriage against the will of her family.

Ayesha is said to be a Canadian national and a third year student of the King Edward Medical College of Lahore. She is also said to be a close relative of a senior police official currently posted in Sindh. Zulfiqar is her class mate.

When contacted, Shujabad tehsil police officer Attaullah Sherwani said the Lahore police had informed the local police before conducting raid on the house of Zulfiqar.

He confirmed that the Lahore police had brought a tractor and a pick-up to the Shujabad Saddar police station but they had refused to park the vehicles on their premises.

He, however, contradicted the claim of Zulfiqar's family that the police had also abducted two minor girls.