LAHORE: Acting Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday took suo motu notice of increasing incidents of child kidnapping in Punjab and directed the provincial police chief to submit a report on the matter.

Justice Nisar observed that the media had been widely reporting that more than 600 children had been kidnapped in the province and approximately 300 from Lahore alone.

`It had been highlighted that such abductions were orchestrated with nefarious object of extracting vital body organs of the children and for sexual abuse or beggary,` the acting chief justice observed.

He further observed: `In any case such large scale abduction, if so, of children in a short span of time is a matter of immense concern and alarm.

He said it was violation of the fundamental rights, especially of life, liberty safety and free movement and undoubtedly was of great public importance.

The acting chief justice directed the Punjab police IG to depute some high ranking officer to provide details of the incidents, if any, before the court at its Lahore registry on July 28.