Dua Zehra’s disappearance becomes mystery case

The disappearance of a 14-year-old Karachi girl, Dua Zehra, became a mystery case due to the contradictory statements of police and parents.

Karachi police force has failed to recover the allegedly abducted girl, Dua Zehra, after spending six days.

Karachi police have claimed on the basis of CCTV footage that the girl went away voluntarily and was not abducted, whereas, the parents insisted that the girl seen in the footage was not Dua Zahra.

Police also found a search history of court marriage and will-marriage on the internet device of the girl’s house. According to Geo News, there are unconfirmed reports of Zehra’s marriage with the son of a feudal in Sanghar.

14-year-old Dua Zahra, who was allegedly abducted from Malir’s Al-Falah area of ​​Karachi, could not be recovered even after 6 days. Police found important evidence from the CCTV footage outside her residence.

Zehra’s father claimed that the girl who is appearing in CCTV footage was not her daughter. He added that Dua has gone missing in the daylight but the footage showed the nighttime happening.

Police said that when the footage was shown to the neighbours, they confirmed that the girl was Dua.

Moreover, the father of the girl also made a contradictory statement regarding his daughter’s academic details as he claimed that Dua Zehra was a class 7 student. On the other hand, the probers found that she did not go to school since class 3.

The investigators also claimed that information was also collected from a private school’s principal and her fellow students. Moreover, important evidence was collected from the internet device of Zehra’s residence. Police claimed that the search history related to court marriage and marriage of choice was traced.

According to Geo News, a team comprising intelligence agencies and Karachi Police led by DSP Shaukat Shahani cordoned off Zahid Town and Rajput Colony of Sanghar and conducted a search operation that continued for several hours besides searching suspected houses.

However, the media was not briefed about the outcome of the search operation. Some locals claimed that the abducted girl had been rescued. It is being said that a son of a feudal in the Sanghar district who allegedly kept her inside a house after tying the knot with her.

Dua Zahra’s parents, while talking to ARY Digital’s Shan-e-Ramazan program yesterday, shared details about the alleged abduction of Dua Zahra. The girl’s father told the host that they received kidnappers’ messages via WhatsApp and they were demanded ransom for releasing Zehra.

Dua’s father claimed that she went to throw out the garbage at 12:30 pm and she did not return. “We went to the police to report her disappearance but the police did nothing for three days until we contacted JDC.”

JDC head Zafar Abbas claimed that Dua Zehra’s father was demanded ransom and threatened for selling her daughter in case of non-payment of the ransom money.

The mother of the girl said that they kept looking for her like crazy but did not find her anywhere. Today, six days later, they do not know anything about the girl, they do not know in what condition my daughter will be.

“We have no enmity with anyone. I want my daughter alive, not dead like Zainab. I appeal to the higher authorities to recover Dua as soon as possible,” she said.

According to investigators, the phone calls for ransom were fake. The suspected messengers were arrested by the police who revealed that they sent the message for fun.