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A student of NED Engineering College missing since November 5 was recovered and two kidnappers apprehended on Wednesday after a joint operation by personnel of Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and Anti Violent Criminal Cell (AVCC) in the Chota Gate area.
In a press conference held at the AVCC’s office in Garden, CPLC chief Ahmed Chinoy said that Nabeel ul Hasnain, 19, was abducted near Disco Bakery in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
The teenage boy was driving back home after dropping his sister off at school when two men forced their way into his car. They asked him to keep driving. That’s the last anyone saw of him, the CPLC chief said.
The very next day, Nabeel’s family received a ransom call from the kidnappers, demanding an amount of Rs50 million.
However, after a few days of negotiations, a sum of Rs1 million was agreed on.
Meanwhile, AVCC and CPLC teams started conducting raids in various areas of Karachi to recover the student.
“After a joint raid in Shah Faisal Colony’s Chota Gate area, we succeeded in rescuing Nabeel. The kidnappers were also arrested,” he said.
However, he did not disclose any name as he said that investigations were still underway.
Speaking about the incident, Chinoy said that the suspects seemed to know Nabeel’s family as they had a lot of personal information, indicating that the crime was planned rather than a random act.
Kidnapping for ransom
Even though an AVCC official, Riaz Ahmed, was present at the conference, Chinoy responded to almost all questions.
Speaking about the abduction of Additional Home Secretary of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Mohammad Ramzan on October 25 when he was leaving National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi, Chinoy alleged that the incident actually occurred in Ghotki.
Even with an FIR registered at Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station, Chinoy stayed firm on his stance. He said that even though the incident did not happen in their designated area, they were still investigating the matter.
The CPLC chief added that kidnapping for ransom had relatively decreased in the last one year.
In a recent interview, ex-CPLC chief Jamil Yusuf accused the CPLC of hiding actual figures of kidnapping for ransom. Responding to this, Chinoy said that this could not be done with such ease.
“Unlike the AVVC, we take up all sorts of cases, whether registered or unregistered. It is not fair to blame an organisation without any evidence,” he added, getting flustered.
‘Fall in extortion cases’
Despite increased reports of extortion and target killings, Chinoy stated that there had been a 70 per cent decline in the number of extortion cases from old areas of Karachi. “I’m not denying earlier reports, but at present extortion has decreased in the old areas of Karachi,” he stressed.
A reporter asked him whether he could confirm reports about criminal groups demanding monthly extortion from traders in old markets. Chinoy retorted that there was no truth to such reports.
He said that in a recently held meeting between the governor of Sindh and prominent traders namely Anis Majid, Ilyas Memon, Zubair Motiwala and Rafiq Jadoon, the traders said that they did not know who was spreading the news about monthly extortion. n the same vein, he said that there were many elements involved in target killings apart from the obvious. “There is an element of personal enmity too, which is mostly ignored.”
Answering another question about gathering evidence through CCTV footages to investigate cases of target killings, the CPLC chief informed that there were 200 cameras installed in three main corridors of the metropolis.
A student of NED Engineering College missing since November 5 was recovered and two kidnappers apprehended on Wednesday after a joint operation by personnel of Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and Anti Violent Criminal Cell (AVCC) in the Chota Gate area.
In a press conference held at the AVCC’s office in Garden, CPLC chief Ahmed Chinoy said that Nabeel ul Hasnain, 19, was abducted near Disco Bakery in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
The teenage boy was driving back home after dropping his sister off at school when two men forced their way into his car. They asked him to keep driving. That’s the last anyone saw of him, the CPLC chief said.
The very next day, Nabeel’s family received a ransom call from the kidnappers, demanding an amount of Rs50 million.
However, after a few days of negotiations, a sum of Rs1 million was agreed on.
Meanwhile, AVCC and CPLC teams started conducting raids in various areas of Karachi to recover the student.
“After a joint raid in Shah Faisal Colony’s Chota Gate area, we succeeded in rescuing Nabeel. The kidnappers were also arrested,” he said.
However, he did not disclose any name as he said that investigations were still underway.
Speaking about the incident, Chinoy said that the suspects seemed to know Nabeel’s family as they had a lot of personal information, indicating that the crime was planned rather than a random act.
Kidnapping for ransom
Even though an AVCC official, Riaz Ahmed, was present at the conference, Chinoy responded to almost all questions.
Speaking about the abduction of Additional Home Secretary of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Mohammad Ramzan on October 25 when he was leaving National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi, Chinoy alleged that the incident actually occurred in Ghotki.
Even with an FIR registered at Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station, Chinoy stayed firm on his stance. He said that even though the incident did not happen in their designated area, they were still investigating the matter.
The CPLC chief added that kidnapping for ransom had relatively decreased in the last one year.
In a recent interview, ex-CPLC chief Jamil Yusuf accused the CPLC of hiding actual figures of kidnapping for ransom. Responding to this, Chinoy said that this could not be done with such ease.
“Unlike the AVVC, we take up all sorts of cases, whether registered or unregistered. It is not fair to blame an organisation without any evidence,” he added, getting flustered.
‘Fall in extortion cases’
Despite increased reports of extortion and target killings, Chinoy stated that there had been a 70 per cent decline in the number of extortion cases from old areas of Karachi. “I’m not denying earlier reports, but at present extortion has decreased in the old areas of Karachi,” he stressed.
A reporter asked him whether he could confirm reports about criminal groups demanding monthly extortion from traders in old markets. Chinoy retorted that there was no truth to such reports.
He said that in a recently held meeting between the governor of Sindh and prominent traders namely Anis Majid, Ilyas Memon, Zubair Motiwala and Rafiq Jadoon, the traders said that they did not know who was spreading the news about monthly extortion. n the same vein, he said that there were many elements involved in target killings apart from the obvious. “There is an element of personal enmity too, which is mostly ignored.”
Answering another question about gathering evidence through CCTV footages to investigate cases of target killings, the CPLC chief informed that there were 200 cameras installed in three main corridors of the metropolis.
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