HYDERABAD, July 29: Hero Mal, the father of a final year student of the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Suresh, who was kidnapped on Saturday morning, has lodged a case with the Hala police.

According to the DSP, Hala, the case was lodged against unknown persons.

Suresh was kidnapped while he was on his way to the university.

Minority councillors, M. Parkash and Deewan Kanyha Lal, raised the issue in a session of the district council, adding that the law and order situation was deteriorating with each passing day.

Meanwhile, there has been no development in the kidnapping case of 18-year-old Mohammad Khan, who was kidnapped in Bulri Shah Karim, Tando Mohammad Khan DSP Miandad Jakhro said.

The Bulri Shah Karim police had lodged the case on the complaint of the uncle of the boy.

The boy was returning home on a motorbike, along with his uncle Haji Ghulam Hussain, after closing his shop, when six unidentified armed bandits intercepted and kidnapped him.

The police launched an operation with the help of foot-trackers.

The DSP said the bandits took the boy towards Moolchand Forest near Thatta district and then returned to the village of Jumaris, adding that the police traced the foot prints of four bandits and the kidnapped boy in a sugarcane field.

He claimed that the bandits then moved towards Aachi Dhand where an encounter took place, resulting in injuries to one of the bandits who could not be identified.

He said the police found two chits, written by the boy.

One of the chits was addressed to the police, saying the police should not follow the bandits as his life in danger. In the second chit, the bandits asked the police not to chase them otherwise they would recover the body of the boy.