KARACHI, March 30: A four-year-old boy was killed by his kidnapper and he dumped the body in the bushes at Quaidabad on Sunday.

The police said Tauqeer was kidnapped for ransom on Friday and an anonymous caller called his father, Shabbir, asking him to pay Rs2.5 million in ransom for his son’s release. Shabbir, a contractor in a textile mill, resident of Labour Colony, reported the matter to the police on Saturday.

He expressed his suspicion about the involvement of his neighbour Mehmood Ali and his (Mehmood’s) mother, Chand Soofan, in the kidnapping of his son.

The SHO Quaidabad police station, Tahir Zaidi, said the police sought help from the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee.

The SHO said the police picked up Mehmood and his mother on Sunday. Mehmood told the police that he was under heavy debt and wanted to pay off his liabilities for which he had kidnapped Tauqir. He told the police that he had strangled the boy with a shalwar-string and dumped his body in an empty plot in Sherpao Colony. Mehmood, a jobless labourer, said he killed the boy on Saturday night as he feared that he could have disclosed his identity.

The police booked the suspects in a kidnapping for ransom case, the SHO said and added that Tauqeer was the only son of Shabbir. He was born after three daughters.

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