May 26, 2021
KARACHI: A newborn who was abducted and sold out for Rs300,000 by a midwife, soon after being declared dead on his birth, has been recovered after 58 days in a police raid, ARY NEWS reported on Wednesday.
According to details, the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) wing of the Sindh police carried out a raid in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality of the city and arrested two female suspects- a mother and a daughter- and recovered the newborn.
The police while detailing the entire episode said that midwife who facilitated the birth of the child at her home informed the parents that it was a stillbirth, in which the baby dies before birth.
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Three suspected kidnappers were killed in Karachi’s Manghopir during an exchange of fire with law enforcers late Monday night.
The joint operation was conducted by the Anti Violent Crime Cell and Citizens-Police Liaison Committee.
Two men have been rescued too. They were reportedly kidnapped on April 23 and the kidnappers asked their families to pay them Rs50 million for their release. A case against the kidnapping was registered at the Site police station.
The police said that the three men were working with a group operating outside Pakistan. They had even kidnapped a man named Abdul Jabbar in 2020 from Surjani Town.
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The Anti-Violent Crime Cell of the police had detained a suspect identified as Mohammed Abbas.
During investigation, the suspect revealed that the woman had been killed.
On information extracted from him, the decomposed body of the woman identified as Aziz Akhtar, 55, was recovered from a farmhouse in Jokhio Goth.
She had gone missing around six to seven months ago when she was on her way to her beauty parlour in Gulshan-i-Hadeed, said a police spokesperson.
The police were investigating the case.
Published in Dawn, April 11th, 2021
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