Quadruple murder: Suspect’s mother, other relatives held

RAWALPINDI: The Saddar Bairuni police held the mother of a quadruple-murder suspect into custody during a raid in Ghala Mandi in Chiniot, the hometown of the suspect.

Investigators also claim to have located the hideout used by the suspect, Imran, using cell phone data and have vowed to arrest him soon.

The Saddar Bairuni police also picked up Asif, an uncle of Imran, his wife, three sons and a daughter from Kalyal and shifted them to the police station for interrogation.

The police registered a murder-kidnapping case against Imran and four unidentified accomplices on the complaint of Faisal Husain, brother of Sher Afzal, the oldest victim.

The investigators said that Station House Officer (SHO) Malik Yar Muhammad led a police team in a raid in Ghala Mandi, Chiniot and took the mother of the suspect into custody for interrogation.

They said that the Information Technology (IT) Lab officials had also located the hideout Imran and his accomplices had used through SIM data. The investigators said that police would soon arrest the killer.

SHO Saddar Bairooni Malik Yar Muhammad confirmed the arrest of Imran’s. He said that police would arrest Imran and recover the ‘kidnapped’ 16-year old daughter of Sher Zaman.

The SHO said that the police were closing the net on the suspect using his cell phone data.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 6^th, 2016.