KARACHI: A minor daughter of a clothes merchant kidnapped in Sohrab Goth on Wednesday morning was found safe and in stable condition in a graveyard in the evening in Junejo Town in Sohrab Goth, said police.

They added that the three-and-a-half-year-old girl was kidnapped by unidentified person(s) travelling in a black car near Gul Homes at Al-Asif Square.

East SSP Sajid Amir Sadozai claimed that the police had taken immediate action and started search and raids in the area. “It appears that the suspects abandoned the minor girl there,” said the senior officer.

Mr Sadozai added that search for arrest of the culprits continued in the area.

The police have registered an FIR on the complaint of the girl’s father under Section 364-A (kidnapping or abduction of a person under the age of 14).

According to the complainant, his daughter along with her two cousins left home in Gul Homes near Al-Asif Square to purchase potato chips when unknown person(s) travelling in a black car abducted her at around 9.30am. Area SHO Abdul Rasool Siyal said the police were investigating the motive for the kidnapping.

He added that no one approached the family for ransom.

Girl’s kidnap and murder in PIB Colony

It may be recalled that five days ago, a five-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered in PIB Colony, which triggered protest by area residents, which prompted the higher authorities to take notice.

Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon, who along with senior officers visited the victim girl’s home in PIB the other day and offered his condolence, assured the family of early arrest of the culprits involved in the gruesome incident.

He informed the family that the police were making efforts to arrest the culprits.

Meanwhile, police sources said that 13 more suspects had been taken into custody and their DNA samples taken and sent to a lab at University of Karachi. So far, the investigators have detailed 30 suspects and the police were waiting for reports of the DNA samples.

The sources said that so far, no one has confessed to involvement in the case.

Newly married woman ‘commits suicide’

A recently married woman committed suicide in New Karachi on Wednesday, said police.

They added that Saba Arjuman, 33, allegedly hanged herself with help of her dupatta inside her home at Bada Market. The body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

Khawaja Ajmer Nagri SHO Salman Shah said the woman got married around seven months ago. She ended her life over some domestic issues, believed the officer.

Published in Dawn, September 10th, 2020