ISLAMABAD, April 27: The city police are hunting for four persons on the charge of kidnapping one of their woman relatives and forcibly taking her thumb impressions on marriage papers.

The woman told the Margalla police on Friday that one of her relatives came to her home on April 12 and asked her to accompany him to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (Pims) to inquire after the health of a relative.

They along with three other relatives set off in a car towards the hospital but on way she was taken to F-8 Markaz, where they forcibly took her thumb impressions on some papers having English and Urdu wordings, besides taking her photograph.

On April 16, the man who had come to her house informed her on the phone that she was now her sister-in-law as her marriage had been held with one of his relatives.

The police registered a case on the charge of kidnapping and have started investigation.

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