Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Aug 27: The police has arrested three persons from a village of tehsil Thanamandi on the charges of kidnapping, harassing a minor boy and keeping him in illegal confinement merely on the baseless suspicion of his involvement in a theft case.
On Sunday, SSP Rajouri received a video in which some men can be seen tying a minor boy with a rope and hanging him with ceiling besides harassing him. Soon after receiving video, District Police Rajouri headed by SSP Yougal Manhas started investigation to find the origin of video and place of incident and it was suspected that video is from Thanamandi area, after which teams headed by SDPO Thannamandi Iftikar Chowdhary and SHO Nazir Ahmed Dar were put to task for identifying the accused and place of incident.
Acting swiftly, police team from Thanamandi managed to trace the area and people involved at Chhurung village of Thanamandi.
Meanwhile, a man namely Zahid Shah, resident of Churung reported before Thanamandi police station that his 11 years old boy Sohaib has been kidnapped by three men and kept in wrongful confinement.
During verification of this complaint, it was found that the minor victim in video is Sohaib himself.
Thereafter, two separate teams headed by SDPO Thanamandi and SHO Thanamandi raided at separate locations in Churung village and nearby locations and arrested all the three accused.
They included, Parvaiz Ahmed, son of Noor Hussain, Mohd Aslam, son of Nazir Ahmed and Imran Ahmed, son of Mohd Rafiq, all residents of Churung, Thanamandi.
They have been booked and arrested in a case FIR No. 150/2018 U/S 364, 342, 323 RPC of Police Station Thannamandi.
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