{"id":3314,"date":"2025-04-10T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:05:33","slug":"fake-fia-officer-ex-cop-arrested-in-kidnapping-for-ransom-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"Fake FIA officer, ex-cop arrested in kidnapping for ransom case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A fake officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and a former Islamabad police official have been arrested in connection with a kidnapping for ransom case in Rawalpindi, authorities said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, posing as law enforcement officials, abducted Mohammad Nazir, a businessman involved in the oil trade, from the Rawat area, Express News reported.<\/p>\n<p>They falsely identified themselves as members of the FIA and Islamabad police while using wireless communication devices.<\/p>\n<p>The kidnappers then demanded a ransom of Rs50 lakh for the victim&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, Nazir&#8217;s relatives filed a complaint with the Rawat police, leading to the registration of a kidnapping case.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects later negotiated the ransom down to Rs15 lakh and instructed the victim&#8217;s family to meet them in different locations, including Chak Beli Mor.<\/p>\n<p>A police team led by SHO Zahid Zahoor set up a checkpoint on the GT Road, where they successfully apprehended four of the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, Nazir, was safely rescued, and police also recovered a vehicle and other items from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>However, two of the kidnappers, including the fake FIA agent and the dismissed police officer, managed to flee the scene. The police have launched a manhunt to capture the remaining suspects.<\/p>\n<p>SHO Zahid Zahoor stated that the police are pursuing the fugitives and are confident they will be arrested soon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fake officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and a former Islamabad police official have been arrested in connection with a kidnapping for ransom case in Rawalpindi, authorities said on Thursday. The suspects, posing as law enforcement officials, abducted Mohammad Nazir, a businessman involved in the oil trade, from the Rawat area, Express News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}