KARACHI: Police on Friday arrested a man alleged of attempting to kidnap a three year old girl from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the city.
The girl’s mother said the man had picked up her daughter and started talking to her in an area near their house. The mother said she started yelling when she saw this happening and the man was detained by the area’s residents. Police have lodged an FIR against the accused who has been identified as Haroon.
In his initial statement to the police, the accused said he was a drug addict and had come to the area from Sarjani Town at 3 AM to commit robbery when he was detained by residents and accused of being a kidnapper.
This development comes in the backdrop of a kidnapping panic gripping residents of Karachi. However these reports were termed rumors by Police Chief Mushtaq Maher.
In a statement the police chief said the high alert regarding widespread kidnapping of children and females by certain elements was not based on facts.
“There is no truth in children being in children being kidnapped systematically or in a planned way or dead bodies being recovered,†the police chief said.
He added that information pertaining to this was being spread with malafide intentions in an attempt to create panic in the minds of parents and to discredit the efforts of Police and Rangers. “Such unverified and untruthful information is vehemently denied as it is not based on factsâ€.
The police chief requested that people not pay any heed to such rumours.
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