An FIR of kidnapping was registered at Preedy police station on Tuesday after two sisters went missing from a madrassa near Abdullah Haroon Road under mysterious circumstances last weekend.
The complainant, Muhammad Azeem Akhtar, accused a school teacher of abducting his daughters. The girls, Amna, 15, and Ayesha, 7, live with him in Allah Wali Colony, a neighborhood on Abdullah Haroon Road, Akhtar told police. The girls had gone to the nearby madrassa on Saturday and did not return home, the complaint states.
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When the distressed father inquired at the madrassa, he was told that the girls had already been sent away. On probing the matter further, Akhtar discovered that a seminary professor, identified as Sultan, had taken the girls with him in his car.
Akhtar told police that Sultan also teaches at Hyderi Model School in Hijrat Colony, where Amna and Ayesha also study in grade six and two respectively.
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Sultan often insisted on personally dropping them off at home instead of letting them leave in the school van, Akhtar said, adding that Sultan also gave his daughters expensive gifts.
Sultan’s cell phone has been turned off since the sisters disappeared.
Officials of the Preedy police station said they had initiated an investigation into the matter and recovered CCTV footage from areas near the seminary and the girls’ hostel.
However, despite the removal of the FIR, after the testimonies of the seminary students, the police are also wondering if the elder sister had planned to elope.
