Killed for kindness: Stabbed for stepping up, Good Samaritan dies

Man was stabbed for offering to pay part of suspect’s restaurant bill; teenager killed by friend

RAWALPINDI: A 22-year-old labourer, who was critically injured after being stabbed on Friday, died at District Headquarters Hospital on Sunday, police said.

Muhammad Jamil, a resident of Pind Jhatla, died on Sunday morning due to injuries he sustained after allegedly being stabbed by Inayat Khan, a labourer and Jamil’s co-worker, at a restaurant in the Rawat area.

After Jamil was pronounced dead, the police added a murder charge to the already-registered attempted-murder case.

The police report says that Jamil and his brother Shabbir were eating dinner at the restaurant, while Inayat and Waheed Khan were eating at another table of the same restaurant. After Inayat got the bill for his dinner, he started arguing with the restaurant manager, accusing him of charging an extra Rs30.



To resolve the situation, Jamil intervened and said that he was willing to pay the extra Rs30, if Inayat could not pay.

Jamil’s offer only further angered Inayat who started brawling with the Good Samaritan. The scuffle quickly descended into a melee, as Shabbir, Waheed, and some of Inayat’s friends got involved.

During the fight, Inayat allegedly stabbed Jamil.

In his statement to the Rawat police, Jamil said that Inayat and Waheed attacked him and his brother over the petty dispute.

The Rawat police, however, said that Waheed was a contractor who had hired Inayat and Jamil as construction workers to work on a house he was building.

So far, police said, they have only arrested a watchman who works for Waheed and was allegedly involved in the melee.

After Jamil’s death, the Rawat police transferred the case to the Homicide Investigation Unit.

Boy murdered

Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by his friend in the Ratta Amral area on Saturday night. The body of Hassan Hafeez was recovered from the house of his friend B*, who is suspected of pulling the trigger.

The suspect’s father told the Ganjmandi police about the presence of a body in his house.

Ganjmandi SHO Muhammad lllyas said that B took Hassan to his house at about 9:30pm on Saturday and that the teenager’s body was later recovered from the same house. He said the police did not know what the suspect’s motive was, while adding that B had gone into hiding after the incident.

He said that the police had registered a murder case and started investigations.

*Name changed because the suspect is a minor

Published in The Express Tribune, November 28^th, 2016.