KARACHI: Sindh Rangers on Thursday claimed to have arrested an eight members gang involved in kidnapping for ransom in Karachi.
The arrested men are old friends who have been robbing and kidnapping people for ransom for a long period, according to the officials. Rangers’ Colonel Sikander told a press conference that the mastermind, Adnan, worked at a judge’s office, two of the accused were identified as Pakistan Customs’ employees, two as police constables, and one as a Central District employee. The other two were also government employees, he said.
Colonel Sikander said the accused belonged to five government departments. They had abducted a young jeweller to extort Rs20 million in ransom. After the kidnapping they removed the sim card from the victim’s cell phone and used his WhatsApp to make ransom calls.