LAHORE: The police have arrested a suspect in a case involving the abduction of two real sisters in Shad Bagh, recovering both girls safely.
According to police, the two sisters had come to the market to fetch household items from home when the suspect lured them and took them away with him.
According to the spokesperson for the DIG Operations, Shad Bagh police registered a case immediately on the father’s report and began a search.
The police team took timely action and traced both sisters with the help of cameras. Shad Bagh police pursued the trail and recovered both sisters safely.
During the operation, police arrested the alleged abductor, identified as Ramzan. The arrested suspect has been shifted to the lock-up and further investigation into the incident has begun.
There will be no compromise on the protection of women and children, the spokesperson said, adding that action will be taken without discrimination against those who take the law into their own hands.
The role of camera surveillance in the recovery is consistent with the pattern now typical of missing-person and abduction cases in the provincial capital. The Punjab Safe Cities Authority operates an extensive network of cameras across Lahore, integrated with a central command and control facility that supports automatic number plate recognition, video retrieval and coordination with district police formations. In cases where a disappearance is reported promptly, investigators can reconstruct a route by stitching together footage from successive camera positions along the likely path of travel.
That capability is time-sensitive. Its usefulness depends heavily on how quickly the complaint reaches the police station, since the search window for reviewing footage widens with every hour of delay, and vehicle or pedestrian movement becomes progressively harder to isolate.
The immediate registration of the FIR on the father’s report is therefore an operationally significant detail. Delay in registration has historically been one of the most common obstacles in cases involving missing children, whether because families first attempt to trace the child themselves or because a station declines to record the complaint pending preliminary inquiry.
Punjab has in recent years introduced procedural requirements intended to eliminate that gap, including instructions that reports concerning missing children be recorded without delay and treated as priority cases from the moment they are received, rather than after a waiting period.
Abduction and kidnapping offences are prosecuted under Chapter XVI of the Pakistan Penal Code, with the applicable provision determined by the age of the person taken, the means employed and the purpose of the abduction. The gravity of the offence — and consequently the sentencing range — escalates where a minor is involved.
The suspect is in custody and the investigation is continuing. The allegations recorded in the FIR remain to be tested before the trial court.
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