Playwright Khalilur Rehman released after abduction in Lahore
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Accused had transferred Rs250, 000 from Qamar's mobile phone and also took his watch, cash
LAHORE (Dunya News) - The Lahore police on Sunday registered a case on the complaint of eminent writer Khalilur Rehman Qamar that he was kidnapped and tortured.
Qamar is a famous writer and has given the industry some major hits. He is also known to have some controversial views on a variety of subjects.
According to the details, a woman named Amina had called Qamar to her house saying she wanted to make a drama and when he reached the woman's house, the armed men kidnapped him.
The Payare Afzal writer had to give a huge sum of money to the kidnappers for his release.
Later the Sundar police registered a case of the incident based on his statement.
In the FIR, it is mentioned that the accused kept on torturing Qamar and kept moving him to different places, the accused threatened to kill him and asked him to request for more money from his relatives.
Rehman alleged that the men confiscated Rs60,000, an iPhone 11, an ATM card as well as his national identity card.
The FIR added that more than Rs200,000 were also withdrawn from a separate bank account belonging to the complainant.
The kidnappers, the FIR states, told Rehman that they had being given the orders to kill him, before demanding a ransom payment of Rs10,000,000, to which Rehman told them that he did not have that kind of funds available.
He demanded police action against his abductors, adding that he would recognise them.
