KARACHI, Oct 22: A transvestite was shot dead in a North Nazimabad locality on Saturday, police said.

They said armed men riding a motorbike targeted the 18-year-old transvestite, Raju Alam, near Abdullah College when he was buying cigarettes from a roadside stall.

Inspector Asim Siddiqi, the SHO of the North Nazimabad police station, said that the police had got contradictory accounts from a few witnesses from which only this could be concluded that the victim was targeted by two men on a motorbike.

The victim sustained a single bullet wound in the head. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

“The victim was a resident of Orangi Town's Sector 11 ½ and used to visit North Nazimabad to meet some friends,” said the area SHO.

Two kidnap victims recovered from Dalmia

The Aziz Bhatti police on Saturday claimed to have recovered a teenage boy and his young cousin who were kidnapped for ransom.

Aziz Bhatti SHO Ahsanullah said the police received a complaint at around 11:30am about the kidnapping of 16-year-old Ayaz Nazar and his paternal cousin Sultan Wali, who came here recently on vacations from Saudi Arabia.

He said Wali came to Gulshan-i-Iqbal to see his uncle. Later, Wali and Nazr left home for some work but were kidnapped by armed men, he added.

“After receiving the complaint and collecting eyewitnesses' accounts and gathering intelligence, we moved to the Dalmia area,” he said, adding that in the meantime, the victims' family received a phone call from kidnappers who demanded Rs2 million as a ransom amount for the safe release of the victims.

“We managed to locate the house where the victims were held. The police raided the place and after a shoot-out recovered the two victims, who were also tortured. The kidnappers, however, managed to escape,” he added.

The police registered a case (FIR 634/2011) under Sections 365-A (kidnapping for ransom) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified kidnappers.