SHO says robbery complaint might be a ruse to divert police’s attention from facts about the murder. PHOTO: FILE
FAISALABAD:
The family’s account of the death of a seventy-year-old man ostensibly killed during a robbery in Hajiabad on Friday night could be an attempt to hide the truth, police said on Saturday.
Mureed Wala SHO Inspector Ali Akhtar said the police were informed that unidentified robbers had broken into the house of Muhammad Afzal and had killed him. He said, “A police team reached the scene and found Afzal dead. They noticed that he had been gagged.”
Akhtar said, “It was learnt during questioning that Afzal, his wife and daughter-in-law were sleeping inside the house. Afzal’s son, Amjad, 29, was sleeping on the roof.”
He said according to the family’s account, the robbers entered the house, killed Afzal and took away some valuables but Amjad and his wife remained unaware of the crime.
“Also the robbery reportedly took place at around 11pm but the police were not informed until Saturday morning,” he said.
He said no valuables were missing from the house. He said the police suspected that the deceased was killed before his mouth was taped. The SHO said the robbery complaint might be a ruse to divert police’s attention from facts about the murder. “Police have registered an FIR against four unidentified suspects under Sections 302 and 34 [murder, conspiracy] of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC),” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2013.
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