LAHORE, Jan 9: Police on Sunday arrested a middle-aged man who allegedly abducted two children sitting in their father's parked car in the Chah Meeran locality of Misri Shah.

City division SP Dr Shahzad Asif told Dawn that Sheikh Abdullah of Chah Meeran informed the police emergency at noon that unidentified people drove away his car from outside a confectionary when he went inside. His children, five-year old Noor Fatima and six-year old Faiq, were in the car which was switched on. As police relayed car's number and its specifications to the control room, a traffic warden stopped the car in Garhi Shahu and quizzed the 'abductor'.

The 'abductor', later identified as 55-year-old Javed Butt of Baghbanpura, introduced himself as grandfather of the children and left the scene, saying the call was relayed mistakenly.

The car was then stopped by another warden at Lakshmi Chowk and Butt was taken into custody with the help of a patrol team of the Racecourse Police Station.

The SP said interrogation showed that Butt was passing by the vehicle when he found it switched on and its driving seat vacant. He drove away the car “just for nothing”.

Butt, who appeared to be a psycho, told police he was afraid that his wife and children would kill him.

On Saturday, Butt called police to his home, fearing his killing at the hands of his family.

As Baghbanpura police were taking him to the police station for legal formalities, he jumped from the police vehicle and suffered minor wounds. He was taken to Shalimar Hospital where he was provided first-aid. Butt's brother-in-law later brought him to his Misri Shah residence on Saturday.

The children and the car were handed over to the complainant at the Racecourse Police Station. Butt was handed over to Misri Shah police and an abduction case was registered against him. BODIES FOUND:

The police on Sunday recovered two bodies from the provincial capital. Chuhng police shifted the decomposed body of an unidentified man, aged around 40, from Kitar Bund Road to the city morgue.

It was suspected that some unidentified person(s) kidnapped the victim and later murdered him for the reason which was yet to be ascertained. Passersby alerted the police after spotting the body.

Sherakot police found the body of an unidentified minor boy in an empty plot of Jafria Colony and shifted it to a hospital for the post-mortem examination. THREE INJURED:

Three people shot at and injured by their neighbours over a monetary dispute in Bhatti Colony of Ichhra here on Sunday.

Edhi ambulances shifted the injured, Shahzad, Irfan and Aamir, to the Services Hospital where their condition was stated to be stable. BURN WOUNDS: A minor boy and a young man suffered burns after an LPG cylinder exploded at a house in Ghousia Colony on Zarar Shaheed Road. An Edhi volunteer said Abu Huraira, 25, was admitted to Services Hospital while six-year-old Yahya Islam was provided first-aid. — Staff Reporter