SHIKARPUR: Police on Sunday recovered an 11-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Ghotki district four years back, after an encounter on the Rahimabad Link Road in the limits of the Khanpur Police Station. DSP Nazeer Lashari said that the police acting on a tip-off succeeded to recover Asadullah, son of Muhammad Bukhsh Chachar, after an encounter with kidnappers who were shifting their hideout from Sindh to Balochistan. The captors left the boy and managed to escape taking the advantage of slum area. The boy was handed over to his relatives after necessary formalities, the senior police official said. An FIR had been registered against the unidentified kidnappers.