SUKKUR: The Jacobabad police have claimed recovery of a woman and her three daughters allegedly kidnapped in Hyderabad about four years ago. They said they were continuing their efforts to locate her fourth daughter.

Jacobabad SSP Sajid Hussain Khokhar told a press conference late on Tuesday evening that Shabana Daheri, wife of Amjad Hussain Daheri, along with her four daughters, Lailatul Qadr, 16, Noor Bano, 15, Dilshad, 14 and Maryam, 6, had gone missing and their kidnap case was registered at a Hyderabad police station four years ago.

A team of the Bahoo Khoso police station on Tuesday evening carried out a raid on a house in Nazeer Khoso village and recovered the woman and her three daughters, the SSP said, adding that efforts were under way to recover Lailatul Qadr.

Mashooq Ali, Nabi Bukhsh and Peroz, all belonging to the Chachar tribe, were arrested during the raid on the house, owned by Qadir Bukhsh Chachar, he added.

Relatives of the victims had been informed of their recovery, the police officer said, adding that the woman and all her four daughters had been living with the arrested suspects since they had gone missing.

Appearing before journalists, Shanana Daheri said that her neighbours in Hyderabad, Ms Hakim Khaskheli and Hameeda Umrani, offered her to accompany them in their visit to the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine and Bhuttos mausoleum in April 2012. She said she agreed and took her daughters along. Ms Umrani`s son, Deedar, also joined them, she added.

Ms Daheri claimed that during the travel, she and her daughters were served some drinks that left them unconscious. `I regained conscious at a house and later came to know that it belonged to the Chachars and is located in Shikarpur. My three daughters were with me but Lailatul Qadr was missing, she further claimed.

She said she kept asking the Chachars about the missing daughter but they never replied until she was wedded to Qadir Bukhsh Chachar, `on whose behest we all were kidnapped`. She said during the entire period of captivity, she and her three daughters had occasionally been subjected to torture by the Chachars. She said she did not remember exactly when they were shifted to Nazeer Khoso village of Jacobabad district. `We had also been forced into bonded labour,` she said.

She said their ordeal seemed to have come to an end with the Tuesday night police raid but still she was extremely worried about her fourth daughter.