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Police fail to trace girl abducted 20 days back

By Our Correspondent 2022-08-31
TOBA TEK SINGH: Thikriwala police have failed to recover a girl who was allegedly abducted 20 days back from Faisalabad Air University (AUC) Colony.

Faisalabad Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) chairman Baba Latif Insari told a press conference on Tuesday that Muqaddas Bibi, sister of sanitary workers` union member Ilyas Masih of Chak 66-JB, was a sanitary worker employed at different houses in the AUC.

He said on Aug 11, she was returning home af ter doing her duty, when some unidentified persons abducted her and since then she could not be traced by Thikriwala police despite registering a first information report (FIR) of the incident.

Thikriwala police Muharrar Naeem claims that although the abduction place mentioned in the FIR falls in Faisalabad Sadar police station jurisdiction, the police have taken into custody some suspects, but so far no clue to the abducted girl has been found.

An investigation officer was in touch with the complainant, a brother of the abducted girl, he says,hoping she will be recovered soon.

PROTEST: Scores of protesters, including women, blocked Faizabad Chowk in Ghulam Muhammadabad locality, Faisalabad, for traffic by staging a protest demonstration against police for allegedly releasing the `killers` of a man on Tuesday.

The protesters chanted slogans againstpohce andburntusedtyres.

CPO Umar Saeed Malik, however, refuted the allegation that the arrested suspect had been released by police.

He says some of the close friends of the deceased,Asif,hadmisledthe police by claiming that he had committed suicide. He said after Asif`s relatives insisted he was murdered, the police have against started interrogation from an already arrested suspect, Ghulam Hussain.

BABY RECOVERED:Faisalabad`s Chak Jhumra police claim to have recovered a two-month-old baby, just 36 hours af ter his kidnapping.

He says after thoroughly investigating the case, the police found that an uncle of the baby, Mazhar Iqbal, had kidnapped him when his parents were asleep and sold him to a woman of Sialkot, who was without anissue.City Police Officer Umar Saeed Malik told reporters on Tuesday that through geo-fencing and use of other modern IT tools, the police traced and arrested the suspect and his accomplice Shahzad from Safdarabadand recoveredthebay.

The CPO says that the woman who purchased the baby from the suspects is still at large and the police were looking for her.

Madina Town SP Muhammad Nabil handed over the recovered child to his mother on Tuesday.

INJURED: Robbers allegedly shot at and injured two men for offering resistance near Gojra and fled away after looting Rs300,000 from them.

Police said cattle traders Amjad and Abbas, of Chak 425-JB Wahla, were returning from Gojra with Rs300,000 cash on a motorcycle, when two gunmen, also riding a bike, intercepted them.

As the robbers attempted to deprive them of cash, the traders of fered resistance. At this, the panicked robbers opened bre, leaving them critically wounded. The criminals then fled away with the cash.

The injured traders were later shifted to Gojra THQ hospital by police.