MANSEHRA: Armed men have kidnapped a woman and her son in Puttan area of Kohistan after pulling them off a Rawalpindi-bound coach.

However, the police cast doubts about the incident. District police officer of Kohistan Arshad Khan told Dawn that the police had learned about the alleged kidnapping of a woman and her son, residents of Shamogar area of Gilgit, on November 9 night.

`We`re investigating the matter and will say anything about it with certainty only once the situation is clear,` he said, adding that the police had yet to recover the alleged abductees despite raids in high mountains.

The DPO even said if such an incident hadhappened, the police would have known even a little about it.

Sources in family said the abductees were on their way to Rawalpindi from Gilgit when gunmen stopped the coach they were aboard, seized them and took them away.

Junaid Ahmad Khan, another son of the kidnapped woman, lodged an FIR with the police online saying a group of armed men had pulled his mother and brother off a Rawalpindi-bound coach on November 9 night and kidnapped them.

He claimed kidnappers had contacted his family and demanded Rs10 million ransom for the release of the two.

The Puttan police after receiving theinformation began investigation to `re-lodge the FIR.` The DPO said he had summoned the complainant to his office for further information but he had yet to show up.

`We`ve carried out raids at various places in high mountains after the online FIR was Kled but the alleged abductees have yet to be traced,` he said.

Junaid Ahmad said at the moment, the police were just following the online FIR and had reached the family named in it.

TAMPERED VEHICLES SEIZED: The Kamila police on Tuesday seized many tampered vehicles and arrested drivers.

Kamila station house office Noor Nabi Shah told reporters that on a tip-off, thepolice intercepted a vehicle and found it tampered with and therefore, its driver was taken into custody.

He said more than two dozen tampered vehicles were seized during a cracl
Shah also said the police had seized a truck loaded with smuggled timber and handed it over to the forest department for action in line with the relevant laws.

He said most tampered vehicles plied from Swat to Gilgit-Baltistan via Kohistan.

The SHO said the crackdown on tampered vehicles would continue until its objectives were achieved. Correspondent