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Man faking his kidnapping arrested
PESHAWAR: Officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have arrested a man from a local hotel here on the charges of his attempt to extort money from his family by staging drama of his own kidnapping.
According to police record, one Inaamullah, son of Faridullah of Sheringal, Upper Dir, had disappeared from his residence all of a sudden on Oct 4, 2014 and contacted his elder brother Ubaidullah through voice changer that his brother (Inaamullah) was in the custody of kidnappers and would be released on payment of Rs1 million ransom.
“The phone caller posing himself as kidnapper of my brother had demanded one million rupees, but I preferred to inform the police instead of paying the ransom,” Mr Ubaid said in his statement to police.
Dir resident tried to extort money from relatives
He said that the police station concerned at Sheringal had registered the case of his brother’s disappearance and continued search for him.
Following some information, police raided a hotel in Board Bazaar, Peshawar, and picked a man who later disclosed the whole story that he was Inaamullah and attempted to extort Rs1 million from his brothers on the pretext that his kidnappers wanted ransom for his release.
“I did this in a state of compulsion. I want to initiate some sort of business, but have no money for the purpose,” Inaamullah was quoted as saying by police. He said that his plot failed because the police traced his phone call.
An official of cantonment circle told this correspondent that CTD had handed over the accused to Dir police for further interrogation. He said that the case regarding his disappearance had already been registered at Sheringal police station which would continue the investigations.
He said that many of the kidnapping cases were of the same nature wherein the accused persons talked through voice changer and extorted money from their relatives. The official referred to a female student of Badhber who had also used voice changer for threatening his relative’s children if he failed to pay the extortion money. The girl, he said, had recently been arrested and a local court released her on bail.
Meanwhile, the police claimed to have arrested 30 suspects, including two Afghan nationals, during raids in parts of Peshawar on Saturday. A spokesman for Peshawar police said that the accused persons were under interrogation while the two Afghans would be deported.
Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2015
PESHAWAR: Officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have arrested a man from a local hotel here on the charges of his attempt to extort money from his family by staging drama of his own kidnapping.
According to police record, one Inaamullah, son of Faridullah of Sheringal, Upper Dir, had disappeared from his residence all of a sudden on Oct 4, 2014 and contacted his elder brother Ubaidullah through voice changer that his brother (Inaamullah) was in the custody of kidnappers and would be released on payment of Rs1 million ransom.
“The phone caller posing himself as kidnapper of my brother had demanded one million rupees, but I preferred to inform the police instead of paying the ransom,” Mr Ubaid said in his statement to police.
Dir resident tried to extort money from relatives
He said that the police station concerned at Sheringal had registered the case of his brother’s disappearance and continued search for him.
Following some information, police raided a hotel in Board Bazaar, Peshawar, and picked a man who later disclosed the whole story that he was Inaamullah and attempted to extort Rs1 million from his brothers on the pretext that his kidnappers wanted ransom for his release.
“I did this in a state of compulsion. I want to initiate some sort of business, but have no money for the purpose,” Inaamullah was quoted as saying by police. He said that his plot failed because the police traced his phone call.
An official of cantonment circle told this correspondent that CTD had handed over the accused to Dir police for further interrogation. He said that the case regarding his disappearance had already been registered at Sheringal police station which would continue the investigations.
He said that many of the kidnapping cases were of the same nature wherein the accused persons talked through voice changer and extorted money from their relatives. The official referred to a female student of Badhber who had also used voice changer for threatening his relative’s children if he failed to pay the extortion money. The girl, he said, had recently been arrested and a local court released her on bail.
Meanwhile, the police claimed to have arrested 30 suspects, including two Afghan nationals, during raids in parts of Peshawar on Saturday. A spokesman for Peshawar police said that the accused persons were under interrogation while the two Afghans would be deported.
Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2015
