Police arrest murderer of 7-year-old boy

Mehsud elders thank Dera Circle DIG for timely action

DI KHAN: Elders of the Mehsud tribe convened a jirga and met Dera Circle DIG Abdul Ghafoor Afridi on Thursday to appreciate the arrest of the murderer of seven-year-old Muhammad Saeed.

Earlier in the week, police arrested the accused, Muhammad Noor, who confessed his crime before the court. Noor is a local settled in Elahiabad, Tank.

“We are pleased by the police for arresting the murderer of a boy who belonged to a poor family,” Malik Said Ram Mehsud, who led the jirga, told The Express Tribune. The elders also thanked Tank city police station SI Mazamir Khan for tracing the accused.

The jirga also discussed other issues pertaining to the displaced people and promised their cooperation.

According to a police official, they traced Noor with the help of the bag in which the minor’s body was found. The bag was one used for household purposes and had the accused’s name written on it. The scribble was slightly visible without Noor knowing about it, said the official, adding police thus reached the house of the murderer and arrested him.

On March 2, the decapitated body of Saeed was found from Wazirabad, west of Tank. The remains were taken to District Headquarter Hospital Tank for post-mortem and identification.
Saeed was said to be kidnapped from Elahiabad a day before his body was found. “He went out of his house and never returned,” said an official, adding his parents then registered a case against unidentified persons and police started investigation.

Increasing cases of extortion and kidnappings are one of the several issues the displaced people of Mehsud tribe have to face since they settled in Tank after military operation Rah-e-Nijat was launched in 2009 in South Waziristan.