According to the police, she issued a statement saying that she went to DG Khan of her own free will. She married a teenager who lives there but the police are verifying the veracity of their nikkahnama papers.

The police said that the boy had visited Karachi two months ago to meet her and had also transferred money to her over a mobile phone application.

Nimra went missing from her home in Saudabad's S-1 of Malir on April 20. Her mother said she went out at 9am.