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Transgender person held for kidnapping girl

By Bureau report
November 08, 2024
This representational image shows the hands of an incarcerated person. — AFP/File
This representational image shows the hands of an incarcerated person. — AFP/File 

PESHAWAR: Police on Thursday arrested a transgender person on the charges of kidnapping a girl.It was learnt that the officials of the Chamkani Police Station during an action arrested a transgender, Iftikhar for allegedly kidnapping a girl to marry her. The transgender is said to be an employee at a hospital and was operating social media accounts as a boy. “He befriended the girl on social media and convinced her to leave her house for him last month,” said an official.The family lodged a case after the girl went missing, he said, adding the police, while working out the case, recovered the girl and arrested the transgender persons.