ISLAMABAD - Ramna police have arrested three more women in connection with a case involving abduction and selling of newborns.
Local police registered a case a few days back after it came to know about the abduction and selling of newborns under the garb of social work. Tahira Gul, who was president of the NGO ‘Adopt Baby Islamabad’, and her son Shehzad Ali Zaib were arrested after a person from Lahore reported the matter to the police. The duo confessed to police that they had sold at least 12 babies in the last few months. They had bought babies from a woman running an NGO in Peshawar. Upon their information, the Ramna police have arrested three more women from Peshawar and Mardan and further investigation is underway.
The criminals had set up their office in sector G-10 of the federal capital. The couple had been running an NGO and bought babies for Rs 100,000 to Rs 170,000 each from a woman in Peshawar. They would then report each baby to the police as an abandoned child found in a crib placed outside their home, where they ran the NGO. This was how they gave legal cover to the business by registering the sale of a baby as adoption in the court of a magistrate. A local magistrate had on Monday sent the accused on three-day physical remand for allegedly stealing newborns from hospitals and selling them. The suspects stole newborns in connivance with maternity ward staffers at the hospitals.
Meanwhile, Industrial Area police have registered a case against an unknown person for threatening to bomb Allama Iqbal Open University on Wednesday. The case has been registered on the complaint of security officer of the university who received the call on his phone.
Furthermore, Islamabad police have arrested five outlaws including seven suspects from various areas of the city and recovered hashish, heroine, two illicit pistols and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman on Thursday. According to details, Shahzad Town police arrested accused Tabssam and recovered 150 bullets of pistol 30 bore from him.  Koral police arrested Nasir Iqbal and recovered 215 gram hashish from him. The CIA police arrested accused Sher Ali and recovered one 30-bore pistol along with ammunition from him. Shalimar police arrested accused Ali Hassan and recovered 10 grams heroine from him. Sabzi Mandi Police recovered a tampered car from the possession of Jozaf.