LAHORE: Punjab police on Sunday recovered the abducted teenage girl from Pakpattan after the strict order of the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court.
The police have also booked two suspects including Ilyas and Abid. The victim was kidnapped from Lahore in broad daylight on Saturday.
Lahore High Court (LHC) had ordered the police to produce the victim by 10 pm on Sunday after she could not be produced by 6 pm which was the first deadline.
LHC Chief Justice Ameer Bhatti on Sunday evening admonished the Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) and Lahore CCPO for failing to recover a 17-year-old female matric student who was kidnapped in the broad daylight.
He warned the police officials that they would be sacked from their posts if the victim is not produced by 10 pm today (Sunday).
During the hearing on Sunday evening, LHC Chief Justice Ameer Bhatti ordered IG and CCPO to recover the student and produce her before the court by 10 pm.
The chief justice warned the police officials that he would write to the prime minister to remove the inept officials if they fail to recover the victim by the given deadline.
IG said the search for the student is underway in Sahiwal, and they were making all efforts for the recovery. At this, the chief justice angrily remarked that the police were so helpless that the girl was taken to Sahiwal before their eyes. The court remarked that the police should have closed all routes.
He said the court is not sitting at this hour to give a new deadline to police officials.
“She is [like] my daughter you should consider her your daughter too,” the chief justice said to the police officials.
A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped in Lahore in broad daylight as she returned home with her brother after appearing for her matriculation examination.
The teenager and her brother were on a motorcycle when at least four kidnappers pushed them to the roadside using their car.
They bundled the girl into the car and took her away after slapping her brother, who attempted to resist the kidnapping.
The incident was recorded by multiple CCTV cameras in a street in the Shad Bagh area of Lahore.
