Kidnapped Lahore industrialist Kh Akram back home
By Sajjad Shafiq Butt
LAHORE: Industrialist Khawaja Akram returned home Wednesday after police officials on behalf of the family paid heavy ransom to the alleged kidnappers.
Sources closed to the police working on such a high-profile case of kidnapping for ransom recently occurring in the provincial metropolis confided to The News that Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) personnel played a key role in striking a deal with the kidnappers. Sources added the ransom paid for the freedom of the industrialist was around Rs 100 million.
“I have heard the same on the case as you are telling me. However, police have made no efforts so far and the family members themselves may have managed the release of their dear one,” SP (CIA) Ch Masood Aziz said when he was contacted for an official version.
When the police official was asked as to what was the development on part of police regarding the matter, he said the family of Kh Akram desired police to stay away. “So we did the same,” Ch Masood Aziz told this correspondent by phone.
It was Saturday evening (August 6) when Mass Pharmaceutical Company proprietor Kh Akram left his office in front of the Jinnah Hospital for home in Tech Housing Society, when some car-riders blocked his way near PCSIR Housing Scheme and kidnapped him.
Shahzeb, son of Kh Akram, was the first one to receive a threatening call on his cell-phone. The kidnappers rang him up while using the cell-phone of his father and demanded Rs 150 million ransom.
Hanjarwal police registered a case and the matter was referred to CIA, as the car taken away in the kidnapping was later found parked in the Pearl Continental Hotel. The investigators got assistance from a specialised wing of country’s supreme intelligence agency network for tracing the location of the caller, who was said to be in touch only with Shahzeb. The caller (s) were also said to be very cautious while contacting Shahzeb. Till the filing of this report, the family of Kh Akram was tight-lipped about the circumstances in which he was kidnapped and later released.
why the police was required to negotiate ransom? and after paying even couldnt they be tracked?
criminal are getting smarter or what?