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| Tutor among boy's captors held in Peshawar |
| 2013-06-09 |
[Dawn] Local police on Friday tossed in the clinkYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a boy's three kidnappers, including his tutor, and recovered ransom. ASP (cantonment circle) Bilal Zafar told a news conference here that 10-year-old student Tanveer Ali Shah had disappeared on June 3 and it later emerged that he was kidnapped. He said the kidnappers had demanded ransom for the boy's release. Father of the boy Saeedullah of Warsak Road had informed Michini Gate police about the disappearance of his son and said the boy had gone to the house of tutor Waqas on Warsak Road but didn't return. He said he had informed police about the son's disappearance and searched for him everywhere in the city but to no avail. The boy's father said he later received a call from kidnappers, who demanded the Rs1.2 million ransom. "We paid ransom to kidnappers, who freed the boy in Kohat," he said. The ASP said Sherlocks had taken the tutor and accomplices Abid and Wazir of Peshtakhara area into custody for interrogation during which he had confessed to the abduction. He also said the arrested men had named other accomplices but they had yet to be arrested. Tutor Waqas said he had kidnapped the boy for ransom as he hadn't paid his monthly fee. Police said the arrested men seemed to be members of a well-organised gang of kidnapers. The said of the Rs1.2 million rupees, Rs0.1 million had been recovered and the remaining would be recovered soon. The accused have been booked at Michni Gate cop shoppe. |
| Posted by:Fred |