Times of Islamabad

Drop scene in the medical student Dua Mangi kidnapping case in Karachi

Drop scene in the medical student Dua Mangi kidnapping case in Karachi

KARACHI – Drop scene in the medical student Dua Mangi kidnapping case inKarachi.

A 20-year-old female law student Dua Nisar Mangi – who was kidnapped fromKarachi’s Bukhari Commercial in the DHA early on Sunday – has returned homesafely on Friday night. The police authorities believed that law studentDua Mangi was kidnapped for ransom. Dua’s family has refrained from anytalks with the media on the matter.

South Zone DIG Sharjeel Kharal, in a statement on Thursday, stated: “Itappears to be a case of kidnapping for ransom […] it has been ascertainedthrough investigation that the student was kidnapped for ransom.”

According to a Karachi police spokesperson, police were investigating thecase from different aspects and more than a dozen persons had beenquestioned.

The police and Citizens-Police Liaison Committee were also probing into thecase from the perspective of a past kidnapping case, according to a policestatement.

Dua’s family members had also received suspicious phone calls on theinternet from suspected kidnappers, and subsequently informed the policeabout it.

After that information, police widened the scope of investigations into thecase, and have been examining previous kidnapping for ransom cases to traceany evidence for the suspects. Many previous unresolved cases are alsobeing investigated.

According to earlier report, the perpetrators took off with Dua in a greyHonda Civic, the model of which was around four years old.

Police also investigated the cell phone data of both the victims andgeo-fencing of the site will also be carried out.