An Afghan gang, posing as CTD officials, abducted the owner of a poultry farm in the Gadap police station area of Shahr Quaid and released him by cutting off his ear after receiving a ransom of Rs.
According to the details, on December 12, 2023, four armed suspects in a vehicle on a dirt road near Gadap police station limits, kidnapped Muhammad Harisur Rehman, the owner of the poultry farm, along with the driver, at gunpoint and belonged to the Anti-Terrorism Force. expressed by
The brother of the abducted businessman Mohammad Harisur Rehman filed a case of kidnapping in Gadap police station. According to the text of Case No. 569/23, the armed accused were present in a black colored car, in which one was carrying a Kalashnikov and three were carrying a pistol.
The accused abducted Haris-ur-Rehman along with the driver from Gadap police station limits and left the driver Asghar at some distance, after which they took the poultry farm businessman with them.
The kidnappers kept driving the businessman around the city and demanding crores of rupees from the businessman’s family. After not paying the ransom, the accused cut off the ear of the owner of the poultry farm and then made a video and sent it to the family. The men paid a ransom of Rs 1 crore and escaped leaving the owner of the poultry farm near Hyderabad.
DIG CIA Ahmed Nawaz Cheema says that the Afghan group is involved in the incident, the family received calls from Afghanistan for compensation and during this time the accused kept roaming around the city while the family of the businessman was scared. He threatened to cut off the ear and then injured the ear.
SSP Zafar Changa of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), a special cell for solving kidnapping-for-ransom cases and arresting the accused, says that the group of kidnappers operates from neighboring Afghanistan and this group Its operatives kidnap businessmen from Karachi and collect crores of rupees as ransom, two Afghan nationals are also included in the group.
SSPAVLC says that the family rescued the businessman by paying ransom but the kidnappers have been identified and they will be arrested soon.
It should be noted that on the one hand, traders are afraid of extortion incidents in the city of Karachi. In the past few days, a group of extortionists killed a steel trader, Khurram Jafar, in broad daylight in the city’s busiest market, Timber Market. have not been caught by the police, while on the other hand, the kidnapping of businessmen has also started from Shahr-e-Quaid and these kidnappers are operating from neighboring countries, while the law enforcement agencies are unable to arrest such groups.