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| Lashkar-e-Islam volunteers demolish houses of kidnappers |
| 2008-03-20 |
| Hundreds of Lashkar-e-Islam volunteers on Wednesday demolished the houses of three criminals in Khyber Agency for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a child from the Punjab. The Shura of the organisation, led by its chief Mangal Bagh Afridi, met here to decide the fate of four people accused of kidnapping the minor for ransom and ruled in favour of demolition of their houses. The group managed to arrest three of the kidnappers, including Sayyal Muhammad, who is said to be heading an inter-provincial gang of kidnappers. Immediately after the Shura decision, hundreds of volunteers moved to carry out the directive and demolished the houses of three of the accused while the fourth was expected to be demolished on Thursday. The volunteers also razed the Hujra of Sayyal Muhammad despite an appeal made by his family members not to do so. Mangal Bagh rejected the plea that the Hujra belonged to the entire family. He said the place was used for planning criminal activities. "If the entire family could not restrict him from anti-social activities, then they should suffer as well," he argued. The group on Tuesday raided the compound of an alleged gang of kidnappers and recovered a two-year-old-boy kidnapped near Chakwal Interchange on Motorway on February 26. The boy was later shifted to Bara in Khyber Agency and its abductors demanded a huge ransom for his release. An FIR was lodged with the Chakwal police and a kidnapper, Shehzad, was arrested. He disclosed to the police that the child was shifted to Khyber Agency. The family of the kidnapped child then contacted Mangal Bagh, who succeeded in tracing out the culprits. A chain of arrests made during the process led the organisation to recover the child from one Razbat of Qambar Khel on information provided by Sayyal, the ringleader of the kidnappers from the area. Mangal Bagh on Tuesday morning produced the kid before the media and said the parents of the child had been contacted. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 I love happy endings! And they got the kid back too!! |
| Posted by: Slats Jineng8297 2008-03-20 14:38 |