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| Police refuse to register FIR as 18-year-old girl stays hostage |
| 2010-08-27 |
| [The News (Pak)] The family of an 18-year-old girl, a resident of Bhesa village of Hazara district who was kidnapped during a visit to a shrine in Taret area of Murree on August 19, is running from pillar to post for registration of a case but no FIR has so far been registered by police although identities and phone numbers of the kidnappers are known. According to Sub-Inspector Raja Iftikhar of Taret Police Post, the hostage Nayyara Bibi is resident of Hazara district so legally they could not register an FIR of her kidnapping because it could create problems for them at a later stage. He said that registrationof FIR by him could earn ire of senior police officers. The native Bhesa village of the kidnapped girl falls in the jurisdiction of Lora Police Station and Station House Officer of Lora Nazar Hussain says as the girl was kidnapped from the limits of Taret police, they are legally unable to register an FIR. On the other hand, Muhammad Ziaraf, maternal uncle of the kidnapped girl, alleged that Murree police were demanding Rs70,000 for registration of the FIR. He said soon after the incident, the kidnappers made a telephone call from cellular phone number 0322-5736215, owned by one Tahir Abbasi, to the father of the girl, Muhammad Ibrar, on his mobile phone number 0302-5084456 and demanded Rs10 million as ransom if he wanted his daughter freed alive. He said 42 calls have so far been received from mobile number 0321-9512287, owned by one Sagheer Ahmed, and the ransom amount has been decreased by the kidnappers to Rs300,000. Muhammad Ziaraf said the kidnappers also allowed the kidnapped girl to talk to her father on telephone, wherein she cried for saving her life. He said the man who allowed the girl to talk to her father later said that if they are paid Rs300,000, they would free the girl otherwise she would be killed. When contacted by The News, an official of Taret Police Post claimed that the kidnapped girl did visit the shrine along with another girl namely Salma from the same village and then returned in a motorcar alone. The maternal uncle of Nayyara Bibi admitted that his niece was accompanied by Salma and was kidnapped on her way back home. He claimed that one of the telephone numbers from which calls have been made by the kidnappers belong to the brother of Salma. When this correspondent contacted some residents of Bhesa village to ascertain details, they said that Nayyara Bibi and her family are straight and simple villagers. The same stance was adopted by Sub-Inspector Raja Iftikhar of Taret Police Post. The police have, however, not registered an FIR so far despite receiving an application from the family of the kidnapped girl. The officials of Taret Police Post told the family of the girl that she would be recovered and they should not be worried in this regard. This correspondent tried to contact Inspector-General of Police Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar on his official telephone but his staff said he is not available and whenever he reaches office they would call back The News but that did not happen. |
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