LARKANA, March 16: The fourth judicial magistrate, Larkana, on Friday remanded four alleged kidnappers in police custody for seven days. According to the police, they intercepted a gang of four near the Karmabagh area late Thursday night while they were taking away a kidnap victim, Deedar Solangi, in a jeep. They had kidnapped Solangi from a roadside hotel near the Civil Lines police station, police claimed.

The police arrested the alleged kidnappers -- Riaz Hussain Leghari, Khalid Leghari, Asif Bhutto and Zeshan Jagirani -- but surprisingly recovered no arms from their possession. However, their jeep was impounded and a case was registered against them with the Civil Lines police.

On repeated contacts by Dawn, the police failed to provide details about the kidnap victim, only saying that he was a resident of Larkana city.

INVESTIGATION: Police on Friday began probe into the mysterious death of Manthar Shabrani whose body carrying torture signs was found in a farm in the Sachi Bakhsh Jagrani village.

The body, later moved it to Chandka Medical College Hospital by the villagers was handed over to Ms Dur Bahar Khatoon, mother of the deceased after autopsy.

She charged in an FIR that a couple of days’ ago five people had taken her son from her house. She did not know who they were but she suspected they had killed him, she added.