Court sentences SI, facilitator to life in prison

Kidnapping case

PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday awarded 25 years sentence to a police sub-inspector and a facilitator for kidnapping a citizen for ransom and detaining him in illegal custody.

The ATC judge, Abdur Rauf Khan, awarded the sentence to sub-inspector Farman, a resident of Shabqadar tehsil in Charssada district, and his facilitator Zulfiqar alias Bhutto, after recording evidence and hearing arguments in the case.

As per the First Information Report registered by Muhammad Iqbal, the captive who was released, the sub-inspector and his facilitator kidnapped him from Northern Bypass near the Charsadda Road on July 25, 2015.

He claimed that he was then kept at a hujra near Haryana gridstation and they called his house at Swabi that he had been arrested along with explosive materials and he would be released if they arranged Rs1 million before being charged in a terrorism case.

The complainant also stated that he was freed after his family members paid the money. 

He then charged the sub-inspector and facilitator in his abduction case under Section 365-A of Anti-Terrorism Act at the Khazana Police Station when he came to know that he was released after payment of ransom.

The court tried the police officer and his facilitator and awarded life imprisonment to them after the prosecution and complainant proved the charges against them.