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Six suspects remanded after recovery of kidnapped woman

By Our Correspondent 2017-09-12
KHAIRPUR: The B-Section police on Monday produced a woman before the First Civil Judge of Khairpur, Anwar Shah, and obtained a three-day remand of six suspects for an investigation into her alleged kidnapping.

The police claimed that the suspects, Hakim Ali, Israr, Ali Hyder, Roshan, Siraj and Yahya, were arrested in a raid on a house in Khedo Mahar village near Khairpur late on Sunday evening.

The woman recorded her statement before the judge alleging that the suspects had kidnapped her at gunpoint four days ago from her house situated in Wandh Mohalla after beating up her parents, siblings and some neighbours. She said she was kept in habeas corpus and subjected to torture to force her to sign a Nikahnama.

The woman stated that she wanted to live with her parents. The judge ordered police to reunite the woman with her family and deploy two policemen at their house.

According to the affected family, Yahya along with his associates barged into their house on Thursday and asked them to accept his proposal for the woman. The intruders harassed her parents with firearms and upon resistance started beating up the inmates. Some neighbours tried to come to the rescue of the family but they were also beaten up.

The family said that the intruders forcibly took away the woman to an unknown place and the police succeeded in locating the hideout, where she was kept for four days.