TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 20: Seven people kidnapped a 12-year-old boy after snatching Rs50,000 in cash from his father on Saturday night.

Muhammad Yousaf, of Chak 486-JB, was going to Chak 320-JB from Toba along with his son Muhammad Mansha, a Class VI student. When they reached near the village, seven unidentified men took them on gunpoint, snatched a cellular phone and Rs50,000 in cash from Yousaf and took Mansha along with them.

The Sadar SHO said that the suspects had thrown the cellular phone before fleeing. The police, however, registered a case. SWINDLED:

A man took away cattle head worth over Rs3 million after cheating different villagers in Nawan Lahore area before Eidul Azha.

According to the police, Rana Muhammad Husain and several other farmers complained to them on Saturday that a man, who introduced himself as cattle trader with three fake names, Maqbool, Babar and Aslam, in different villages, had taken away dozens of sacrificial animals after making some advance payment with a promise to pay the remaining amount at Nawan Lahore after few hours. They said that they could not find the man when they went to receive the part payment.