Police on Sunday claimed to have detained more than a dozen suspects during an operation and said they had gathered evidence that could aid in recovering two children recently abducted from Karachi’s Garden area. Five-year-old Aliyan, aka Ali, and six-year-old Ali Raza went missing in the Garden locality on Tuesday. According to South Deputy Inspector General Syed Asad Raza, CCTV footage revealed that they had been taken away by a man and woman riding a motorbike.
Garden police registered a first information report (FIR) under Section 364A (kidnapping or abducting a person under the age of 14) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 3 of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act, 2018 on the complaint of Zainab Younus, Aliyan’s mother.