Woman accused in kidnapping case remanded in police custody

PESHAWAR: The Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday gave five-day remand of a woman to the police for allegedly kidnapping a young man and receiving Rs0.3 million ransom for his release in Tehkal area of the provincial capital.
Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Salim Jan Khan remanded the woman in custody of police for investigation. As per the first information report that Aghuzo Billah, an Afghan national presently living in phase-6 of Hayatabad, told cops in Tehkal police Station that he was kidnapped through a girl. In the FIR, the Afghan national claimed that a young girl, Rida, had invited me to her residence in Tehkal on phone and when he entered her house, a group of armed men overpowered him. He stated that the people demanded Rs2 million as ransom for his release. He said that after repeated requests the kidnappers agreed to reduce the ransom amount to Rs0.3 million. The victim said that he asked one of his friends on phone to pay the amount to the people near Speen Jumaat. The kidnappers, he added, brought him to Palosai area and released him after shooting and injuring him. Following the information collected through mobile phone data, the police said they raided a house in Gharibabad and arrested the young girl with the ransom money and a pistol. A case against the woman and her accomplices was registered and efforts started to arrest the rest of gangsters.