Lahore: AAwais Sheikh, the lawyer of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after a murderous assault on him inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, was allegedly abducted along with his son on Thursday morning in Pakistan and freed after a few hours in captivity.
A few hours after the abduction, Sheikd told some media persons that he and his son had been freed.
Sheikh had claimed a threat to his life because he was fighting the case of an Indian prisoner, who had been convicted of terror charges and spying.
The father-son duo was reportedly abducted by a group of unknown gunmen from an area near the border with India. According to Pakistani news website dawn.com the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Lahore Jawad Ahmad Dogar confirmed that Sheikh had been kidnapped, adding that an investigative team had been constituted for his recovery....
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01:08 PM, May 16, 2013
The Mumbai Police revealed shocking details of how an MBA hatched a plot to kidnap his 13-year-old cousin after losing money in an IPL bet and then got him hacked and burned to death by his friend when the police got to know of the case. ...
11:56 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police has revealed shocking details of how an MBA hatched a plot to kidnap his 13-year-old cousin after losing money in an IPL bet and then got him hacked and burned to death by his friend when the police got to know of the case. "The 13-year-old was attacked on his head. He was taken in a car, which the police have recovered," Mumbai Police Additional Commissioner...
12:28 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: A 13-year-old boy, Aditya Ranka, from South Mumbai was allegedly kidnapped by his cousin Himanshu and then brutally murdered by his friend. The cousin had reportedly lost Rs 10 lakh over betting on IPL matches. He and a friend, Vigesh Singhavi, then allegedly hatched the plot to kidnap the young boy and made a Rs 30 lakh ransom call. But when Aditya's family discovered Himanshu's hand in the kidnapping,...
09:20 AM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has directed the police to lodge a case of kidnapping in instances of missing children below 14 years. "The Home Minister has directed that instead of filing the case of missing children below 14 years in police register, an offence of kidnap be lodged," a spokesperson for the minister said in a statement here. Patil has directed that a circular in this regard be...
09:58 AM, May 11, 2013
Cleveland: Michelle Knight, freed earlier this week as the longest held of four captives in a dungeon-like Cleveland house, was discharged from the hospital on Friday and went into seclusion. Two other women held with Knight - Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, along with a 6-year-old girl - left the hospital earlier this week and have been reunited with their families. Knight, 32, who is estranged from some...
06:41 AM, May 11, 2013
Mumbai: In a landmark decision, all children below 14 years of age who are reported missing shall be treated as "kidnapped" and the matter investigated accordingly, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said in Mumbai on Friday. "Henceforth, any child below the age of 14 shall be directly treated as kidnapped, the case will be lodged accordingly and investigations shall be taken up with seriousness," Patil said. The decision follows a...
04:56 AM, May 11, 2013
The three young women imprisoned for around a decade in a white two-story house in Ohio are going to need support and, most of all, privacy as they re-integrate into society, survivors of other long-term kidnapping ordeals said on Tuesday. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing in separate incidents about a decade ago, were found alive on Monday in a home in the same blue-collar Cleveland...
06:42 AM, May 08, 2013
Hyderabad: The daughter of a legislator in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday approached a court, alleging that her father "detained" her at home for four years and also tried to get her re-married after she married her lover against his wishes. The father dismissed the claims. E Ramya, daughter of ruling Congress party legislator Eeli Nani, approached the Legal Services Authority in Guntur, claiming that she was kept under "house arrest"...
05:42 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Gurgaon: A 23-year-old domestic help and her husband were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping her employer's four-year-old son for ransom. Pooja was employed at the house in Sector 48 here just five days ago through a consultant agency, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Alok Mittal told reporters. On Tuesday afternoon, Pooja called her husband Devi Lal at the employer's house on some pretext, he said. The couple then overcame the mother...
11:08 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Hyderabad: A six-year-old girl who was kidnapped for ransom was found murdered on Thursday night on the outskirts of Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the police said. The girl was abducted in an autorickshaw by three miscreants from near her house in Mahabubnagar Town on Wednesday, after which a ranson call was made demanding Rs 10 lakh, the police said. Her abductors, including one Yakub, who had worked with the...
12:38 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw, stripped them half-naked and hung them by their feet in a crowded bus station in the Nile Delta on Sunday, according to security officials. Both men died. ...
01:53 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The Managing Director of a private energy firm, who was abducted on Friday, has been rescued by the Noida Police. Police are now on the lookout for a garment showroom owner to probe his role in the kidnapping. ...
03:40 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Five persons were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 10-year-old boy from an affluent family in Vile Parle east on Friday afternoon and demanding a ransom of Rs one crore from his parents, police said. Vile Parle police said the kidnapping took place at around 2:30 PM outside the victim's residence at M Padma building, Paranjape scheme no 3 in Vile Parle East. ...
01:40 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A third year polytechnic student on Tuesday allegedly kidnapped a woman lecturer, with whom he had a relationship, after barging into her house at nearby Iraichalkulam and attacking her parents, police said. ...
02:27 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Two youths were on Monday arrested for allegedly abducting and killing an acquaintance they made on social networking website Facebook for ransom. The accused identified as Yudhveer Singh and Jitendra Singh, both college students, became 'friends' with another local Pushpendra Singh through the site some time back. ...
08:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Seven foreign hostages kidnapped last month by a Nigerian Islamist group from a construction company compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek foreign ministries said on Sunday. The al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansaru announced on Saturday that it had killed the hostages seized on February 7 in the northern state of Bauchi because of attempts by Nigerian and British forces to free them. ...
02:55 PM, Mar 11, 2013
A 21-year-old female student going to coaching on Saturday was kidnapped by a group of men travelling in a car here. The girl Situ Shah, a resident of Badalpur, was riding her scooty to her coaching class when the abductors came in a car near Durai and forced her away. ...
12:07 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The fourth accused in murder of two minor siblings was arrested, police said Wednesday. "We arrested fourth accused Abhishek, 25, from Mandawali in east Delhi Tuesday night," said a police officer. ...
11:22 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said. Utsav Goyal, a class VI student of a local school, was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons on March 2 from Vivekanad Colony when he was on his way for a tuition class, official sources said....
08:27 AM, Mar 05, 2013
